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Bleeder: A Memoir | Shelby Smoak
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I am Caucasian, five foot eleven, have sandy brown hair, blue eyes, and am a tender slip of bone. And I am at the hospital. A coming-of-age memoir for modern times, Bleeder is the incredibly compelling tale of author Shelby Smoak. A hemophiliac, Smoak discovered he had been infected with HIV during a blood transfusion at the start of his college career. This devastating and destabilizing news led Smoak to see his world from an entirely new perspective, one in which life-threatening illness was perpetually just around the corner. Set in the 1990s along the North Carolina coast, Bleeder traces Smoak’s quest for love in a world that feels increasingly dangerous, and despite a future that feels increasingly uncertain. From the bedroom to the operating room, and from one hospital to the next, Smoak seeks out hope and better health. Winner of a PEN American Center award for writers living with HIV, Smoak, whose work has appeared in numerous journals and magazines, constructs this unforgettable story of life and love against insurmountable difficulties in breathtaking, tightly drawn prose.
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Bleeder: A Memoir | Shelby Smoak
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I just read about this book, Bleeder. It's set in the town I live in and written by an author from near here as well. It sounds interesting. I think I'm going to try to get it from the library. #bleeder #NCauthors #localauthor #localsetting

Unrelated photo of my daughter hugging the dinosaur shirt I was about to buy her. She had been fussing until I showed her the shirt and let her hold it. #girlslikedinosaurstoo

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