When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in 2002, her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother pulled her aside and revealed a startling secret. "I grew up across the street from a woman who lived as a man," and then implored Casey to find out what happened to him. For ten years, as Parks traces Roy's story, she is forced to reckon with long-buried memories and emotions surrounding her own sexuality. Parks writes about finding oneself through someone else's story, and about forging connections across the gulfs that divide us.
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