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America's Boy: A Memoir
"A revelatory story about acceptance, pride, and the many ways even a seemingly prejudiced family can surprise...
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"A revelatory story about acceptance, pride, and the many ways even a seemingly prejudiced family can surprise us" by the bestselling author of Magic Season (The Washington Post). Indie Next List "Great Read" Selection
American Library Association's Inaugural "Rainbow List" Selection In 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. Born 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. Life 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. Filled with memories of happiness and heartbreak, America's Boy is both "a quirky tribute to [Rouse's] rural Ozark family, and an easily digestible, homespun tale of a bygone era in Middle America" (Time Out Chicago). "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." --Metro Weekly
Author: Wade Rouse
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 08/26/2025
Pages: 314
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9798337201528
About the Author
Wade Rouse is the USA Today and international bestselling author of five memoirs and fifteen novels, including fiction under the pen name Viola Shipman, chosen to honor his grandmother. His works have been translated into nearly thirty languages and selected as Today Show Must-Reads, Indie Next Picks, and Michigan Notable Books. Rouse was a finalist in the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards for Humor and has been featured in the Washington Post, Time, All Things Considered, People, Good Housekeeping, and Parade. He earned a BA from Drury University and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University. He splits his time between Saugatuck, Michigan, and Palm Springs, California, and hosts Wine & Words with Wade: A Literary Happy Hour every Thursday on the Viola Shipman Facebook page. He can be found at waderouse.com and violashipman.com.
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American Library Association's Inaugural "Rainbow List" Selection In 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. Born 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. Life 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. Filled with memories of happiness and heartbreak, America's Boy is both "a quirky tribute to [Rouse's] rural Ozark family, and an easily digestible, homespun tale of a bygone era in Middle America" (Time Out Chicago). "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." --Metro Weekly
Author: Wade Rouse
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 08/26/2025
Pages: 314
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9798337201528
About the Author
Wade Rouse is the USA Today and international bestselling author of five memoirs and fifteen novels, including fiction under the pen name Viola Shipman, chosen to honor his grandmother. His works have been translated into nearly thirty languages and selected as Today Show Must-Reads, Indie Next Picks, and Michigan Notable Books. Rouse was a finalist in the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards for Humor and has been featured in the Washington Post, Time, All Things Considered, People, Good Housekeeping, and Parade. He earned a BA from Drury University and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University. He splits his time between Saugatuck, Michigan, and Palm Springs, California, and hosts Wine & Words with Wade: A Literary Happy Hour every Thursday on the Viola Shipman Facebook page. He can be found at waderouse.com and violashipman.com.
This title is not returnable
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