Book description
When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend and attend church twice a week, or he could be gay-and leave. Rex left, driving toward the only other gay man he knew and a…
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1 author picked Road Home as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Rex Ogle's memoir of living on the streets of New Orleans after being thrown out of his house by his father for being gay is powerful, important, beautiful, heartbreaking, and astoundingly infuriating. The way young gay people are abused, discarded, and disrespected in this country--and in so many places in our world, let's be honest--is the real abomination against humanity and God. The mistreatment of people by those who claim to operate solely from the fountain of God's love. Give me a break.
I love how the author moves the narrative between light and dark, almost like circadian rhythms…
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