In the memoir, She’s Not There, Jennifer Finney Boylan reveals what it felt like to grow up as the wrong gender and his desire to be a woman.

Every young man in his life seeks the guidance of someone who they believe they can model themselves after. Some young men look to their parents, some to their peers, and sometimes some sadly seek the comfort of gangs. Whether positive or negative all young men seek out a beacon to look towards to navigate their lives in this difficult world.

In his sophomore novel, K.M. Soehnlein traverses the themes of death, grief, bitterness, and the general harshness of living.

Paul Bailey’s new book, Think of an Elephant, seeks to combine spirituality and science, acknowledging that there is room for both to create a unified universe. This is an excerpt of Bailey’s discussion on the importance of his work best told in his own words …

In The Reluctant Fundamentalist, protagonist Changez realizes this land that he held in such high regard upon arrival is not only the world’s superpower, but a bully as well.

Kevin Sessums knew he was gay before he could spell the word. In one scene of his haunting memoir of self-revelation, he is a young boy watching his mother sewing maternity clothes for herself and he begs her to make him a skirt out of the leftover fabric. She finally gives in to her son’s pleading against the advice of her mother and aunt. Happy with his new duds, Sessum twirls in front of his horrified father who is enraged by this display of femininity and later, snatches the skirt off and forces him to watch it burn.