Bite Hard Format:Paperback Chris has come out as

Chris has come out as transgender

Through a series of letters spanning twenty years

At the café atop the hill

telling the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments

anyone peeking their head out of the closet

Bite Hard Format:Paperback Chris has come out asThe first collection by award winning performance artist poet Justin Chin. In Bite Hard, Chin explores his identity as an Asian, a gay man, an artist, and a lover. He rails against both his own life experiences and society's limitations and stereotypes with scathing humor, bare bones honesty, and unblinking detail. Whether addressing what really goes on in the kitchen of Chinese restaurants or a series of ex boyfriends, all named Michael, Chin