The family outing : a memoir / Jessi Hempel.

The family outing : a memoir / Jessi Hempel.

By
Hempel, Jessi.

Publication Date
2022

Publication Information
New York : HarperOne,

Physical Description
viii, 306 p.

Subject Term
Families.
 
Sexual minorities.
 
Sexual minorities -- Biography.
 
Sexual minorities' families.
 
Coming out (Sexual orientation) -- United States.
 
Identity (Philosophical concept)
 
LGBTQ2 non-fiction.

Genre
Autobiographies.

Summary
Jessi Hempel was raised in a seemingly picture-perfect, middle-class American family. Growing up, Jessi and her two siblings struggled to make sense of their family, their world, their changing bodies, and the emotional turmoil each was experiencing. And each, in their own way, was hiding their true self from the world. By the time Jessi reached adulthood, everyone in her family had come out: Jessi as gay, her sister as bisexual, her father as gay, her brother as transgender, and her mother as a survivor of a traumatic experience with an alleged serial killer. Yet coming out was just the beginning, starting a chain reaction of other personal revelations and reckonings that caused each of them to question their place in the world in new and ultimately liberating ways.

Language
English

ISBN
9780063079014


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