My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel

My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel

Rasheed Newson • Flatiron Books

ISBN-10: 1250833523 · ISBN-13: 978‑1250833549 · 2023

Live offer for this book: 69 live copies of this book from $6.57 (as of 2026-09-05).

Dimensions: 5 in × 5.3 in × 0.1 in; 9.3 Oz

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Cover quality: good

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A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl "Trey" Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships--all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death. Vibrant, humorous, and fraught with entanglements, Rasheed Newson's My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young gay Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning. Rasheed Newson is a writer and producer of Bel-Air, The Chi , and Narcos . He currently resides in Pasadena, California with his husband and two children. My Government Means to Kill Me is his debut novel.

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