num_pages: 240
description: With bold Southern humor, journalist and performer Kirk Read takes readers on a guided tour of his precocious and courageous adolescence. Recalling his years as an openly gay high school student, Read describes how he navigated the hallways with his sense of humor and dignity intact. He fondly recalls his initiations into sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, as well as his "shy as neon" acts of rabble rousing during high school. How I Learned to Snap is a refreshingly victim-free story in which queer teenagers are creative, resilient, and ultimately heroic.
language: English
title: How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story
titlecomplete: How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story
genres: Biography, Queer, LGBT, Memoir, Nonfiction, Queer Lit, Humor, Queer Studies, Biography Memoir, Gay
ratings_count: 544
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Stonewall Book Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Autobiography/Memoir
publisher: Penguin Books