{"product_id":"americas-boy-a-memoir","title":"America's Boy: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A revelatory story about acceptance, pride, and the many ways even a seemingly prejudiced family can surprise us\" by the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMagic Season\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndie Next List \"Great Read\" Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Library Association's Inaugural \"Rainbow List\" Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this memoir, writer and journalist Wade Rouse delivers a humorous and heartwarming account of his Midwestern childhood and coming of age as a gay man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Granby, a small farm town in the southwest Missouri Ozarks, Wade was a fish out of water as long as he could remember--or at least since he participated in his family's mock Miss America pageant when he was just five years old, clad in his grandmother's red \"whore\" heels and his mother's black-and-white polka-dot bikini.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLife didn't get easier in Wade's conservative hometown, especially after his older brother died just a month after Wade graduated junior high school. It was then that Wade buried his brother--and his sexuality, so his parents wouldn't mourn the loss of a second son. Finally, after years of a descent into obsessive-compulsive behaviors and overeating, Wade was able to come out to himself, losing weight and gaining confidence until he had nothing left to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilled with memories of happiness and heartbreak, \u003ci\u003eAmerica's Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is both \"a quirky tribute to [Rouse's] rural Ozark family, and an easily digestible, homespun tale of a bygone era in Middle America\" (\u003ci\u003eTime Out Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A storyteller and a memoirist in the best sense of the words. . . . Reading Rouse's memoir is more like sitting with a good friend and a cold beer, trading stories and remembering those things that may have been painful or tragic at the time, but must now be respected for what they are.\" --\u003ci\u003eMetro Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wade Rouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46074585808965,"sku":"BS-LIB-201528","price":23.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2482\/2494\/files\/9798337201528-HD.jpg?v=1792498390","url":"https:\/\/libros787.com\/en\/products\/americas-boy-a-memoir","provider":"Libros787.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}