[Hac-announce] July 2022 Book Discussion: "Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing" by Lauren Hough

[kvngough at aol.com]

Our July 2022 book is Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays by Lauren Hough. The discussion will take place Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 2:30 pm at the Unitarian Society of New Haven, 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden. (USNH COVID policy can be found at the HAC Meetup.)

>From Amazon:
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--to Germany, Japan, Texas, Chile—but it wasn't until she finally left for good that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond "The Family."
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.
“Stark and riveting . . . searingly honest and often painfully funny. . . . 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.” – Leah Mirakhor, The New York Times Book Review
Kevin (& Paula)
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