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Book SynopsisRecounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity - and, ultimately, his sexual orientation - in order to become who he thinks he's supposed to be. By turns comic and tragic, this nuanced memoir uncovers the false selves we create to get along in the world and the price we pay to maintain them.
Trade ReviewA powerful, beautiful sock in the stomach of a memoir. It's filled with living, breathing, three-dimensional people, settings that are so vivid they have a cinematic quality, refrains and reprises that give the whole story a musical coherence. The ending will leave readers in a state of-I don't know what-grief? joy? wonder? hope? All of those and more. I can imagine this book changing lives."" - Domenica Ruta, author of the memoir
With or Without You ""A compelling and exceedingly well-written memoir that is, at times, as heart-wrenching and hilarious as any book I've read in a very long time. Sadowski is a craftsman; there's so much earned empathy and experience in here that it's hard to overstate."" - Jared Yates Sexton, author of
The Man They Wanted Me to Be
