'Hough's conversational prose reads like the voice of a blues
singer, taking breaks between songs to narrate her heartbreak in
verse, cajoling her audience to laugh to keep from crying' - The
New York Times 'Hough's writing will break your heart' - Roxane
Gay, author of Difficult Women 'Each one told with the wit of David
Sedaris, and the insight of Joan Didion' - Telegraph 'This moving
account of resilience and hard-earned agency brims with a fresh
originality' - Publishers Weekly Searing and extremely personal
essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with
the darkest elements the country can manifest - cults,
homelessness, and hunger - while discovering light and humor in
unexpected corners. As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many
identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer
at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a
member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own
self robbed from her. The cult took her all over the globe but it
wasn't until she finally left for good that Lauren understood she
could have a life beyond "The Family." Along the way, she's loaded
up her car and started over, trading one life for the next. Here,
as she sweeps through the underbelly of America--relying on
friends, family, and strangers alike--she begins to excavate a new
identity even as her past continues to trail her and color her
world, relationships, and perceptions of self. At once razor-sharp,
profoundly brave, and often very, very funny, the essays in Leaving
Isn't the Hardest Thing interrogate our notions of ecstasy,
queerness, and what it means to live freely. Each piece is a
reckoning: of survival, identity, and how to reclaim one's past
when carving out a future.
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