Join the HV LGBTQ Center and Rough Draft for a reading and conversation with L. Nichols, author of the graphic memoir FLOCKS, and cartoonist Summer Pierre. After, stick around for a special meeting of the Queer Adult Book Club, which is reading FLOCKS for their November selection!

Food, drinks, and copies of FLOCKS will be available for purchase and signing.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

L Nichols, now a celebrated multi-disciplinary artist, engineer and father of two, was born in small town, rural Louisiana, assigned female and raised by conservative Christians. Flocks is his memoir of that childhood, and of the expectations of his family, friends and community, the flocks of Flocks, that shaped and re-shaped him as a child. Unexpectedly, L never takes the easy way out, never accuses, never rejects, never blames and never flinches in the telling of this personal history. L’s irresistibly charming drawings demonstrate what makes Flocks so special: L’s boundless empathy. Flocks tells more than a story of self-acceptance; it tells a story of acceptance itself.

Summer Pierre is a cartoonist and writer living in the Hudson Valley, New York. She is the author of the graphic memoir, All The Sad Songs (nominated for a 2019 Eisner Award) and the autobiographical comic series, Paper Pencil Life. Her comic review of The Letters of Sylvia Plath for NewYorker.com, "Sylvia Plath's Last Plan," was a finalist for 2019 Slate Studio Prize. Her other books include The Artist in the Office: How to Creatively Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week ("A virtual bible for artists and day jobs" -The Boston Globe) and Great Gals: Inspired Ideas for Living a Kick-Ass Life. Her writing and art have appeared in The New York Times, NewYorker.com, Pen America, and The Comics Journal among other places.