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Emily L. Quint Freeman

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This vivid, no holds barred page turner, Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss, is about a lesbian of conscience who became a fugitive, on the run for over nineteen years using several identities. A gripping story about finding your true self and your sexual truth during the turbulent late sixties through the late eighties, against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Nixon and Reagan years, the Women's and Gay Liberation movements, and the AIDS crisis.

Emily's story delves into family rejection, the price of ideals, lost love, the agony of an underground existence, and personal renewal. As a university student, she became an activist for peace and social justice. One May night in 1969, Emily and seventeen others hauled somewhere This vivid, no holds barred page turner, Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss, is about a lesbian of conscience who became a fugitive, on the run for over nineteen years using several identities. A gripping story about finding your true self and your sexual truth during the turbulent late sixties through the late eighties, against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Nixon and Reagan years, the Women's and Gay Liberation movements, and the AIDS crisis.

Emily's story delves into family rejection, the price of ideals, lost love, the agony of an underground existence, and personal renewal. As a university student, she became an activist for peace and social justice. One May night in 1969, Emily and seventeen others hauled somewhere around 40,000 records of draft-eligible men from the draft board office on the South Side of Chicago and burned them, as an act of non-violent civil disobedience against the Vietnam War and racism. The group waited at the scene, singing "We Shall Overcome", and were arrested. She takes us on her journey, living underground for 19 years, before finally emerging into the light.

FAILURE TO APPEAR is a fierce coming of age story of a political activist, a young woman and of a generation. When it becomes as clear to the reader as it does to Emily Freeman that “In a mad country, it’s sane to be insane” the urgency of being a part of progressive change is a body slam that takes your breath away. That visceral response is even stronger when we understand that this truth is as crucial today as it was in our country’s past. This book takes its place alongside the searing and sensitive memoirs of other moral dissenters who’ve helped change the course of our history --Jewelle Gomez, Author of The Gilda Stories

This is a thoroughly detailed document of a lesbian in a closet within a closet. As compelling as a novel, it brings back the conflicts and clashes of the 1960s, the misunderstood compassion for our soldiers in Vietnam, and the consequences of one woman's principled and inspiring resistance. I was ever eager to return to her story each time I had to put it down -- Lee Lynch, Award Winning Author of The Swashbuckler, An American Queer, Rainbow Gap, and more

EMILY L QUINT FREEMAN has appeared on CNN Evening News and NPR’s All Things Considered; interviewed by numerous progressive radio stations, such as KPFA; and covered/quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, National Catholic Reporter, Associated Press, InfoWeek, Wired, and The John Liner Review, among others When she isn’t writing, you might find Emily planting veggie seeds in her garden or at her piano playing Scriabin.

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