Diary of a Misfit (A Memoir and a Mystery)

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Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life.
"Most moving is Parksā€™s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow misfits into which the marginalized will always, for better or worse, fit." ā€”TheĀ New York Times Book Review


When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks's grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, 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. Diary of a Misfit is the story of Parks's life-changing journey to unravel the mystery of Roy Hudgins, the small-town country singer from grandmotherā€™s youth, all the while confronting ghosts of her own.

Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā For ten years, Parks traveled back to rural Louisiana and knocked on strangersā€™ doors, dug through nursing home records, and doggedly searched for Royā€™s own diaries, trying to uncover what Roy was like as a personā€”what he felt; what he thought; and how he grappled with his sense of otherness. With an enormous heart and an unstinting sense of vulnerability, Parks writes about finding oneself through someone elseā€™s story, and about forging connections across the gulfs that divide us.

This book title, Diary of a Misfit (A Memoir and a Mystery), ISBN: 9780593081105, by Casey Parks, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (September 26, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Author:
Casey Parks
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
368
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (September 26, 2023)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780593081105
ISBN-10:
0593081102
Weight:
9.2oz
Dimensions:
5.18" x 8.01" x 0.76"
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