Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels

"Like Bond, the memoir is droll, pensive and filled with zingers teetering between funny and ferocious."— The New York Times

Hailed as “the greatest cabaret artist of [V’s] generation” in the New Yorker , Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and hilarious coming-of-age tale.

Bond recalls in vivid detail how it looked and felt to first discover Mom's lipstick (Iced Watermelon by Revlon), and how dreary it could be for a trans/queer…