Reviews & Praise for This Is My Real Name
"With uncompromising detail, Cid V Brunet tours us through both the labyrinthine and the mundane. Pay particular attention to their acute use of dialogue. What is said in the club reveals binary gender performance, toxic masculinity and fragility, as well as feminist understandings, labour justice, and an overall nimble emotional intelligence."
–Amber Dawn, How Poetry Saved My Life
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"In this eloquent and detailed memoir of 10 years in sex work, Brunet details what she did, saw and heard during that decade. “Heard” is an important word here, because one of Brunet’s authorial superpowers is an accurate ear for dialogue."
–Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun
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"Cid V Brunet's This Is My Real Name is electric, intelligent, and haunting. Their narrator's voice is by turns bold and vulnerable, navigating the experience of sex work through shrewd observational powers. I found the writing graceful and jarringly honest."
–Shashi Bhat, The Most Precious Substance On Earth
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“Brunet skillfully, gradually, draws back the curtain on the real person behind the invention. It’s a puzzle. This perceptive small town girl who dreamed of becoming a paleontologist became — and is — a gifted writer. This is not the sex worker formula, if indeed there is one. Maybe that’s the point of this stunning memoir.”
–Nancy Wigston, Toronto Star
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"With bare-hearted clarity, This Is My Real Name is a mind-bending trip into a world you thought you knew."
–Merrily Weisbord, The Strangest Dream
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"This Is My Real Name has a surreal, all-absorbing quality to its prose, complete with sharp details and dialogue that is sometimes witty but more often unobtrusively personable. Brunet’s distant, wry voice makes the characters funny and empathetic, hurting and logical, and above all, real."
-Moe Kirkpatrick, ROOM magazine.
–Amber Dawn, How Poetry Saved My Life
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"In this eloquent and detailed memoir of 10 years in sex work, Brunet details what she did, saw and heard during that decade. “Heard” is an important word here, because one of Brunet’s authorial superpowers is an accurate ear for dialogue."
–Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun
*
"Cid V Brunet's This Is My Real Name is electric, intelligent, and haunting. Their narrator's voice is by turns bold and vulnerable, navigating the experience of sex work through shrewd observational powers. I found the writing graceful and jarringly honest."
–Shashi Bhat, The Most Precious Substance On Earth
*
“Brunet skillfully, gradually, draws back the curtain on the real person behind the invention. It’s a puzzle. This perceptive small town girl who dreamed of becoming a paleontologist became — and is — a gifted writer. This is not the sex worker formula, if indeed there is one. Maybe that’s the point of this stunning memoir.”
–Nancy Wigston, Toronto Star
*
"With bare-hearted clarity, This Is My Real Name is a mind-bending trip into a world you thought you knew."
–Merrily Weisbord, The Strangest Dream
*
"This Is My Real Name has a surreal, all-absorbing quality to its prose, complete with sharp details and dialogue that is sometimes witty but more often unobtrusively personable. Brunet’s distant, wry voice makes the characters funny and empathetic, hurting and logical, and above all, real."
-Moe Kirkpatrick, ROOM magazine.
By Franz Seachel for Upstart & Crow.