Tango: My Childhood Backwards, and in High Heels, by Justin Vivian Bond
"Like Bond, the memoir is droll, pensive and filled with zingers teetering between funny and ferocious."
--The New York Times
Didn’t catch one of Mx Justin Vivian Bond’s celebrated cabaret performances this summer? Well, Bond’s Lambda Literary Award winning memoir is now available at Audible and you'd better FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT.
Hilton Als, theater critic for The New Yorker, calls Mx Justin Vivian Bond "The greatest cabaret artist of (v's) generation," and you can hear why. The range this story displays, from whisper sweet to tough as nails, is enthralling.
Bond’s memoir concerns a childhood in the Sixties and Seventies, knowing she wasn’t like the other boys. There are all sorts of fun things the author talks about that reflects the era such as "Frosted Watermelon" lipstick, not to mention the quack psychiatrist that told him as a child that his "gay-ness" was a just a passing faze.
There’s innocence lost and found, confusion, sweetness and more. It’s serious, deep, and deeply entertaining.
Performed by the author, naturally.
--Willow Pennell