Enter to win a paperback or e-book for the award-winning gay memoir, Never Turn Your Back on the Tide
Win the 2020 IndieReader Discover Award-Winner and 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist, Never Turn Your Back on the Tide (Or, How I Married a Lying, Psychopathic Wannabe Murderer and Kinda Lived to Tell), by Kergan Edwards-Stout (author of Songs for the New Depression and Gifts Not Yet Given.), in e-book or paperback. To enter the contest, fill out the form below between Tuesday, August 25 and Tuesday, September 15.
What's It About?
Imagine thinking you had the ideal life. The perfect partner, on whom you relied and trusted. An infant child, newly adopted. Then one day, quite suddenly, the life you've led is turned upside down. Everything thought true becomes suspect. And you learn, quite quickly, that you can never again trust the person sleeping beside you.
Like the wash of the waves, crashing onto the beach, you never know if the tumult will bring glittering riches, highlighted by the sun, or dark, murky residue of questionable origin.
Never Turn Your Back on the Tide covers Edwards-Stout's years as an early HIV activist, his work in entertainment (dropping names such as Jack Black, Jennifer Beals and Loni Anderson, among others), losing a partner to AIDS, the ultimate gay marriage betrayal, and raising two African American sons, this exceptional memoir offers an amazing array of well-told storytelling and humorous life lessons.
Advance Praise:
"Engrossing… illuminating… This powerful work mixes an AIDS account with a history of a spouse's scandalous behavior." Kirkus Reviews
"Never Turn Your Back on the Tide is a fascinating hodgepodge of a memoir exploring the life of writer/actor/radical Kergan Edwards-Stout… It is a beguiling look at the long, lively years of this thoughtful, rainbow-hued advocate for loving male/male relationships, fatherhood, an inclusive society, and pursuing one's creative dreams." IndieReviews.com - Winner, 2020 IndieReader Discovery Award
5 Star Review: "…disturbingly beautiful autobiography… Never Turn Your Back on the Tide is a touching and eye-opening read. The style is laid-back, easy to follow; the tone is compassionate, sincere, and honest. These are the kinds of books that need to be written...the autobiographies, the memoirs...if ever the world is to better understand and become more tolerant of the differences between each and every one of us. Thanks for writing this wonderful book, Kergan Edwards-Stout." Readers' Favorite
