Book Launch for 'You're Fine.'

Papercut Press announces the publication of Gina Tron's debut memoir, You're Fine., to be released in independent bookstores nationwide on October 15th. In accordance with Papercut's mission, the book will not be available on Amazon.com. A launch party will occur on October 9th at the Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY), where Tron and friends, including Scott Putesky aka Daisy Berkowitz of Marilyn Manson and founder of BULLETT Erin Ralph will be reading from the novel. Readings begin at 8pm.

There will be readings from:

Scott Putesky Angelina Dreem Greg Mania Oweinama Bui
Daniel Kasshu
Erin Ralph
Adam Tendler
Chris Johnson
Gerry Visco Brandon Caro Gina Tron

music by dj KRKN

In You’re Fine., Gina Tron tells us that she is, “not the best person at being a person,” but one may beg to differ. Sure, she’s often mistaken for Lady Gaga, and yes, she’s been accused of plotting to shoot up her prom, but she has proven herself to be a highly functioning “adult low life.” Tron has served as feature editor at Ladygunn magazine, as Creative Director of Williamsburg Fashion Weekend and has interviewed artists like The Backstreet Boys, John Lydon, and Hot Chip. She has frequently contributed to VICE and Politico, where she chronicled the heroin epidemic sweeping her home-state of Vermont, what it feels like to be accused of wanting to kill her peers, and the failure of a New York judiciary system that allowed her rapist to walk free. With a past as emotionally peppered as hers, it’s no wonder that on Christmas Eve 2010, Tron checked herself into New York City’s Gracie Square Psychiatric Institute.

Numbing the effects of PTSD with lines of cocaine, and surrounded by friends and family who can't seem to understand her genuine self-deterioration, Tron becomes desperate for help. She enters Gracie Square sure that she will receive the treatment she needs. Instead, she's medicated, flashed, and violently ill... But incredibly perceptive. Amidst several zombified co-patients, she wanders the halls of the psych ward introspectively examining how she got there, and answering the question, “Where do you go to get away from the place where you have committed yourself?"

Gina Tron is eventually released Against Medical Advice, and against all odds, she is stronger for the bizarre experience. You’re Fine. is a necessary social manifestation, an aspiring catalyst for the dispelling of stigmas against addiction, sexual assault, and mental illness. Gina Tron is not a vindicator of the floundering masses, but rather a stumbling shaman soap-boxing a nihilist spiritualism. She reminds us of our undeniable mediocrity; it’s our averageness which makes us human, and our humanity which makes us extraordinary.