Suzanne McFadden
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Real Life
- A Novel
- By: Brandon Taylor
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends—some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness.
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Not My Gay Real Life
- By Haynes on 02-29-20
- Real Life
- A Novel
- By: Brandon Taylor
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Chilling, Excellent
Reviewed: 01-04-23
Beautifully told story, from a perspective you haven’t heard before. I am sure the main character’s struggles will stick with me for some time.
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I'm Not Broken
- A Memoir
- By: Jesse Leon
- Narrated by: Jesse Leon
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Born to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s, Jesse Leon’s childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was eleven years old left Jesse with a deadly secret. Hurt, alone, and scared for his life, Jesse numbed his pain by losing himself in the hyper-masculine culture of the streets and wherever else he could find it—in alcohol, drugs, and prostitution.
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Very grateful that Jesse shared his journey
- By Adrien L on 03-02-23
- I'm Not Broken
- A Memoir
- By: Jesse Leon
- Narrated by: Jesse Leon
If you can bear the pain…
Reviewed: 11-19-22
you can receive the incredible joy in this story. Jesse Leon narrates the story of his life from childhood in the barrio to grad school at Harvard, sharing with intense detail his struggles and self-reliance and then reliance on family, friends, lovers, and virtual strangers who made sure he could see beauty and believe in himself.
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Real American
- A Memoir
- By: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Narrated by: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that American racism routinely inflicts on people of color. The only child of a marriage between an African-American father and a white British mother, she shows indelibly how so-called "micro" aggressions in addition to blunt force insults can puncture a person's inner life with a thousand sharp cuts.
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Must read
- By Anonymous User on 07-16-18
- Real American
- A Memoir
- By: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Narrated by: Julie Lythcott-Haims
Powerful, well told & worth every minute and dollar
Reviewed: 12-21-20
I deeply appreciate this exploration of what it means to be a Black woman in America. The author’s own voice telling the story makes it especially intimate - you hear her voice crack at some painful moments and she tries to rush through others. She is doing this for all of us, so we can better understand ourselves and those around us. I’ll be giving this book as a holiday gift.
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