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Road Home

by Rex Ogle

A memoir of rejection, survival, and the search for home

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A memoir of rejection, survival, and the search for home

Rex Ogle recounts leaving home after his father gives him an ultimatum about his identity. The account follows his journey to New Orleans, where a toxic relationship and homelessness bring the story into questions of abuse and survival. Hunger runs through the description in several forms: food, love, and the need for a place to belong. Road Home completes the memoir trilogy that began with Free Lunch, bringing Ogle’s coming-out story and his experience of family rejection into focus.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in LGBTQ+ memoir and biography.
  • Readers seeking first-person accounts of coming out, family rejection, homelessness, and survival.

Themes

Coming out and LGBTQ+ identityFamily rejectionAbuse and survivalHomelessness and belongingHunger and the search for love

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Book overview

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 food, for love, and for a place to call home--completing the trilogy of memoirs that began with the award-winning Free Lunch.

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