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“Fascinating, funny, and wise, The Family Outing is
an affirmation to all of us who know the pain and shame of hiding
our truest self, and a stirring invitation into the courage,
freedom, and joy of living our whole truth.”—Glennon Doyle,
author of #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed,
founder of Together Rising A striking and remarkable literary
memoir about one family’s transformation, with almost all of them
embracing their queer identities. Jessi Hempel was raised in a
seemingly picture-perfect, middle-class American family. But the
truth was far from perfect. Her father was constantly away from
home, traveling for work, while her stay-at-home mother became
increasingly lonely and erratic. 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.
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