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001			on1268205823
003			OCoLC
005			20220824144042.0
008			211129s2022 nyu 000 0aeng
010			_a 2021049946
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019			_a1309343248 _a1313484873 _a1319747229 _a1322221942
020			_a9780525658535 _q(hardcover)
020			_a052565853X _q(hardcover)
020			_a9780593081105 _q(trade paperback)
020			_a0593081102 _q(trade paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1268205823 _z(OCoLC)1309343248 _z(OCoLC)1313484873 _z(OCoLC)1319747229 _z(OCoLC)1322221942
042			_apcc
092			_aPARKS, C. _bP252
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aParks, Casey, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDiary of a misfit : _ba memoir and a mystery / _cCasey Parks.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2205
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c[2022]
300			_a355 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
520			_a"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	1	0	_aParks, Casey.
650		0	_aLesbians _vBiography. _9228327
650		0	_aGender identity. _950116
650		0	_aSex (Psychology) _921609
650		0	_aSelf-actualization (Psychology) _9843
650		0	_aInvestigative reporting. _9194650
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		0	_aLGBTQ+.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c351143 _d351143