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020    0593081102|q(trade paperback) 
020    |z9780525658542|q(ebook) 
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050 00 HQ75.4.P36|bA3 2022 
082 00 306.76/63092|aB|223/eng/20211206 
100 1  Parks, Casey,|eauthor. 
245 10 Diary of a misfit :|ba memoir and a mystery /|cCasey 
       Parks. 
250    First edition. 
263    2205 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c[2022] 
300    355 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. 
520    "When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in
       2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. 
       Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill 
       her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who
       grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood
       friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly 
       kidnapped as a baby and was "a woman who lived as a man." 
       "Find out what happened to Roy," Casey's grandma implored.
       Part memoir, part investigative reporting, Diary of a 
       Misfit is the story of Parks' life-changing journey to 
       unravel the mysteries of Roy's life, all the while 
       confronting ghosts of her own. For ten years, Parks 
       knocked on strangers' doors, dug through nursing home 
       records, and doggedly searched for Roy's own diaries, 
       trying to uncover what Roy was like as a person-what he 
       felt; what he thought; and how he grappled with his sense 
       of otherness. As Parks traces Roy's story, Parks is forced
       to reckon with long-buried memories and emotions 
       surrounding her own sexuality, her fraught Southern 
       identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her 
       mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life. 
       With an enormous heart and an unstinting sense of 
       vulnerability, Parks writes about finding oneself through 
       someone else's story, and about forging connections across
       the gulfs that divide us"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Parks, Casey. 
650  0 Lesbians|vBiography. 
650  0 Gender identity. 
650  0 Sex (Psychology) 
650  0 Self-actualization (Psychology) 
650  0 Investigative reporting. 
650  2 Gender Identity|0(DNLM)D005783 
650  7 sex role.|2aat|0(CStmoGRI)aat300055147 
650  7 Gender identity.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00939593 
650  7 Investigative reporting.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00978154 
650  7 Lesbians.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00996540 
650  7 Self-actualization (Psychology)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01111481 
650  7 Sex (Psychology)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01114228 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.|2bisacsh 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Lesbian autobiographies.|2homoit 
655  7 LGBTQ+ autobiographies.|2homoit 
655  7 Queer autobiographies.|2homoit 
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