The family outing : a memoir
Jessi Hempel was raised in a seemingly picture-perfect, middle-class American family. But the truth was far from perfect. Her father was constantly away from home, traveling for work, while her stay-at-home mother became increasingly lonely and erratic. Growing up, Jessi and her two siblings struggled to make sense of their family, their world, their changing bodies, and the emotional turmoil each was experiencing. And each, in their own way, was hiding their true self from the world. By the time Jessi reached adulthood, everyone in her family had come out: Jessi as gay, her sister as bisexual, her father as gay, her brother as transgender, and her mother as a survivor of a traumatic experience with an alleged serial killer. Yet coming out was just the beginning, starting a chain reaction of other personal revelations and reckonings that caused each of them to question their place in the world in new and ultimately liberating ways.
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viii, 306 pages ; 24 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2022.
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Table of Contents
The Family Outing : A Memoir
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Prologue | p. 1 | |
Part 1 | Origin | |
The Stakeout | p. 13 | |
Crush | p. 22 | |
Oh Lamb of God | p. 31 | |
Therapists | p. 41 | |
Part 2 | The Closet | |
Infinity | p. 53 | |
French Training | p. 60 | |
We Will Serve the Lord | p. 69 | |
Our Bodies, Ourselves | p. 80 | |
I Am the Problem | p. 88 | |
Help Us | p. 98 | |
It's Not You | p. 102 | |
All of the Ways We Pretend | p. 109 | |
Both Hands | p. 118 | |
Part 3 | Hurt | |
Outing Dad | p. 129 | |
Can I Have the Keys? | p. 139 | |
You've Reached a Number That Is No Longer in Service | p. 147 | |
Three-Headed Monster | p. 159 | |
I Don't Even Remember the Fight | p. 166 | |
Family Conference Call | p. 176 | |
Part 4 | Heal | |
Transformation | p. 187 | |
What Persists | p. 198 | |
Tattoos | p. 213 | |
Transitions | p. 221 | |
Surfing | p. 230 | |
Oscillations | p. 236 | |
Marriage, Round One | p. 242 | |
H-I-Fucking-V | p. 252 | |
The Duckling in Her Bra | p. 262 | |
Everything Falls Apart | p. 268 | |
Falling | p. 278 | |
Magic Penny | p. 285 | |
You Will Make Mistakes | p. 291 | |
Conclusion | p. 300 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 305 |