FAMILY OUTING: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I FOUND OUT MY MOTHER IS GAY
Book ID/图书代码： 06120008B20086
English Summary/英文概要： Like most teenagers, Troy Johnson was obsessed with sex: where to get it, how to get it, and with whom. Troy’s sexual coming of age took a unique turn, though, when he learned that his mother was a lesbian. With searing wit, this memoir details the metamorphosis of an average American kid from mom-hating bigot to Pride-going breeder. It also takes on the politics of sexual identity, the delusions of suburban delinquency, and the salvation of getting a clue.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果有一天，你發現自己的母親是同性戀，你將會如何反應？
TROY JOHNSO以幽默詼諧的方式記錄發現他母親是同志後所經歷的各種歷程！
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San Diego print and radio journalist Johnson details the painful metamorphosis he underwent from homophobic child to a mature adult who could accept his mother’s sexual orientation. At age ten, her ex-girlfriend chose to break it to him that his mom was a lesbian. This surprising revelation tested the delicate family balance established years earlier when his parents had divorced: While his sister raged and acknowledged her feelings of betrayal, Johnson drove his pain and anger deep within. The ensuing period of delinquent behavior put an agonizing strain on his relationship with the mother he had always considered his soul mate. Recalling with self-deprecating sarcasm the vandalism, drug and alcohol experimentation, rampant promiscuity, gay trashing and born-again Christian phases he underwent, the author also examines how he and his sister hurt their mother. "During therapy," he writes, "my mom explained that we had scared her deep into the closet-past the hamper, past the shoes, into the mental crawl space behind the insulation. Because we called people we didn’t like fags and things we didn’t like gay, she really thought her kids hated homos." It was only when he was in college that Johnson finally made the decision to accept his mother as she was. Still, he admits, such acceptance is an ongoing process: "There’s no parade where a papier-mache replica of my old, bigoted self burns in effigy and everyone drinks champagne until we’re happy. We can only do this one uncomfortable moment at a time." A master of the declarative, the author offers numerous thoughtful observations on the emotive force of family dynamics and how internalized shame can stunt a life. Revealing, irreverent andstrangely tender.
About the Author/作者介绍： Troy Johnson is the music editor for San Diego CityBeat. He writes for Surfer magazine and appears regularly on the radio show These Days on KPBS. He lives in San Diego, and he loves his mother.
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