My old friend, Kevin Sessums, has written a memoir of growing up gay in the deep South. It’s called "Mississippi Sissy." Michael Cunningham has this to say:
"Mississippi Sissy is a book I’ve been waiting for most of my life, though I didn’t fully understand that fact until I read the book. We have, as it turns out, been sorely missing a book by a writer who is equally at home with Flannery O’Connor and Jacqueline Susann; who understands that Eudora Welty and Johnny Weissmuller are not only members of the same species but are intricately related; whose wit and insight are up to the highs, lows, and in-betweens that compose life as we know it. Kevin Sessums is some sort of cockeyed national treasure."
Andy Towle has an interview with Kevin here. You can buy the book here.
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