Proud to announce this fall
acquisition and share a cover reveal...
LIVING OFF THE EDGE ~ a memoir by Tom Weise
~ Coming in October 2018 ~
The heated immigration debate,
alienating government reforms, and a shift in social structure provide the
ideal platform for Tom Weise’s memoir. His fascinating life story was portrayed in the
critically-acclaimed feature documentary The Good American, which
premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.
Weise is a
political scientist with a degree from the Free University of Berlin.
He studied at the most famous political institute in Europe, the
Otto-Suhr-Institute, where his teachers included a former secretary of state, a
former attorney general, and a former presidential candidate. He lived in
Berlin and Sydney, Australia, in the early ’90s and from 1994-1995 worked as an
intern for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
in New York City.
After four
years in Paris, where he and his partner Keith were one of the first same-sex
couples to legally marry, and almost two years in Barcelona, Spain, the author
moved to Cusco, Peru, near Machu Picchu, where he lived a self-imposed
spiritual exile in the mountains. He most recently moved to a remote beach
village in Costa Rica where he works for change in discriminatory immigration laws
and wonders if he’ll ever be able to legally return to the United States.
Weise has reached a worldwide
community, well-known in NYC for his community work and initiatives—helping over 20 charities, comforting children with HIV, co-founding a gay
homeless youth shelter, and assisting undocumented asylum seekers—as well as within the adult industry where Weise created an escort support group assisting
with health care, legal issues, finances, future planning, and other serious
life circumstances.
From growing up in postwar Germany,
through a festering estrangement from his own abusive family, to the
comprehension and denial of an HIV diagnosis, Weise led a double-life for fear
that his lifestyle would conflict
with his life of advocacy—his memoir opens every door, leading the way for immigration reform and LGBTQ equality and empowerment.
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