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Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
John Paul Brammer
4.06 AVERAGE
1.05k reviews for:
Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
John Paul Brammer
4.06 AVERAGE
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I enjoyed this more than most of the memoirs I've read in the past. I've been following Brammer for a while on Twitter, and actually I'd completely forgotten he wrote a book until recently. Mostly what I'd read of his were the advice column posts that he's made. This book felt like a longer, more in-depth version of those posts, which I liked. It felt easy and conversational while reading it, while also offering some insights as to how Brammer grew up, and what his relationships with various people around him were like.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts
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TW: suicide ideation, suicide attempts, bullying, racism, homophobia, slurs, sexual assault, emotional abuse and toxic relationships
The memior/help column format is honestly quite brilliant. John Paul is brutally honest with his life and his learning moments and how they can translate into life lessons, and hope for the future.
The memior/help column format is honestly quite brilliant. John Paul is brutally honest with his life and his learning moments and how they can translate into life lessons, and hope for the future.
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
“I find that looking, remembering, observing, is an active thing, it is a creative thing, and I am an agent in it.”
Being a big fan of John Paul Brammer from his columns (RIP INTO magazine), his writing in this book has managed to both envelope me with warmth and intervene myself with a huge magnifying glass. It came at the right time, right when doubt has taken over my way of thinking. Brammer invited me to his rumination of being and living, through the past experiences that he’d had. But above all, it provides the same sense of healing as to when I first read the ¡Hola Papi! column years ago.
Being a big fan of John Paul Brammer from his columns (RIP INTO magazine), his writing in this book has managed to both envelope me with warmth and intervene myself with a huge magnifying glass. It came at the right time, right when doubt has taken over my way of thinking. Brammer invited me to his rumination of being and living, through the past experiences that he’d had. But above all, it provides the same sense of healing as to when I first read the ¡Hola Papi! column years ago.
Quick easy read from a young queer half-Mexican writer from Oklahoma in the style of an advice column.