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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 of life: the time when the sun is out, the time when it is not. Inside the deepest instances of pain that he recounts about his time on the streets--and Rex Ogle is very visceral, very experiential--a sense of hope permeates, an intuitive need to survive, to eventually find your core…
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 toxic relationship that would ultimately leave him homeless and desperate on the streets of New Orleans.
Here, Rex tells the story of his coming out and his father's rejection of his identity, navigating abuse and survival on the streets. Road Home is a devastating and incandescent reflection on Rex's hunger-for…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
A collective of mercurial personalities, all seeking faith, meaning, sanctuary or peace--some simply seeking their own sense of self--gather for the creation of a lay community in the English countryside beside an epic Benedictine convent where the nuns are forbidden to be seen and the Abbess is as elusive as the Wizard of Oz, and arguably just as questionable.
The story is told primarily through the eyes of a free-spirited, quietly rebellious, naive young woman named Dora Greenfield who arrives at Imber Abbey to reconcile with her hot-headed and ridiculously misogynistic husband who has been assigned the reparation of ancient texts. Their relationship is laughable at best, maddening, but it gives the book most of its tension; it causes her to make decisions that have detrimental effects on the community. Likewise, the leader of Imber, Michael Meade, a closeted homosexual whose innocent advances result in drastic consequences, some from the…
A motley assortment of characters seek peace and salvation in this early masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean. Originally published in 1958, this funny, sad,…
