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This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful.--Dorothy Allison@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; This is not your mother's triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir. Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Her story will fascinate, it will hurt, and you will like it. --Alison Bechdel, author of @lt;i@gt;Fun Home@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; The most uncomfortable laughter of the season. --@lt;i@gt;Out@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; One of the finest, most nakedly honest and humorous autobiographies out there to be read. . . . Partly David Sedaris-esque in its slice-of-life essay moments, part slapstick farce, so very real, and always laugh out loud hilarious. --Rebecca Sarwate, @lt;i@gt;Edge@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; [A] humorous and harrowing new memoir. --@lt;i@gt;The Advocate@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; To

You don't have to be mean, little, deaf or queer to take heart from this miraculously unsentimental, deliriously funny, refreshingly spite-free, joyously weirdo-embracing memoir. All you have to be is human. Like Augusten Burroughs, Frank McCourt, and Mary Karr, Terry Galloway has written a memoir that transcends its hilarious particularities to achieve the universality of true art. <br>--Sarah Bird, author of How Perfect is That and The Mommy Club Terry Galloway has written a gripping memoir--at times harrowing, at times starkly moving--that chronicles a life beset by two enormous challenges: growing up gay in a very red State, and growing up deaf. Lesser mortals would fold, but Galloway navigates the highs and lows of her life with grace, insight, and unflinching candor. My hat's off to her as an author, and as a fellow human being. <br>--Doug Wright, playwright, librettist, screenplay writer and winner of both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Cast by society as an outsider for most of her life, both in her queerness and her deafness, I am reminded, reading Terry Galloway's brilliant memoir, that most good writers create from an outsider position, a place of inner isolation and silent engagement with the deep issues of life. Galloway has suffered in her life, but with great bravery, and is indeed a very good writer who uses her lifelong separateness to reveal truths about the human heart that apply to us all. <br>--Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain This is not your mother's triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir. Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Her story will fascinate, it will hurt, and you will like it. <br>--Alison Bechdel, author of FUN HOME This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful. This story is true and passionate and fearless and funny as hell when it is not heartbreaking. I expect this book to charm the hell out of great numbers of people, piss off a few, and give hope to many more... <br>--Dorothy Allison

This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful.--Dorothy Allison <br> This is not your mother's triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir. Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Her story will fascinate, it will hurt, and you will like it. --Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home <br> The most uncomfortable laughter of the season. -- Out <br> One of the finest, most nakedly honest and humorous autobiographies out there to be read. . . . Partly David Sedaris-esque in its slice-of-life essay moments, part slapstick farce, so very real, and always laugh out loud hilarious. --Rebecca Sarwate, Edge <br> [A] humorous and harrowing new memoir. -- The Advocate <br> Told with understandable rage, quirky humor, and extraordinary humanity, this remarkable woman's engaging account deserves a large

"This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful.—Dorothy Allison ""This is not your mother's triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir. Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Her story will fascinate, it will hurt, and you will like it.""—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home ""The most uncomfortable laughter of the season.""—Out ""One of the finest, most nakedly honest and humorous autobiographies out there to be read. . . . Partly David Sedaris-esque in its slice-of-life essay moments, part slapstick farce, so very real, and always laugh out loud hilarious.""—Rebecca Sarwate, Edge ""[A] humorous and harrowing new memoir.""—The Advocate ""Told with understandable rage, quirky humor, and extraordinary humanity, this remarkable woman's engaging account deserves a large readership.""—Booklist ""A frank, bitingly humorous memoir.""—Kirkus Reviews ""[Galloway] is dexterous in her use of words and devastating with a sense of black humor that brings numerous laugh-out-loud delights.""—John R. Killacky, The Gay and Lesbian Review ""Galloway was born a storyteller, and her narrative gifts are in full force throughout, spinning yarns about herself and her family that mesmerize.""—Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle"

This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful.--Dorothy Allison This is not your mother's triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir. Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Her story will fascinate, it will hurt, and you will like it. --Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home The most uncomfortable laughter of the season. --Out One of the finest, most nakedly honest and humorous autobiographies out there to be read. . . . Partly David Sedaris-esque in its slice-of-life essay moments, part slapstick farce, so very real, and always laugh out loud hilarious. --Rebecca Sarwate, Edge [A] humorous and harrowing new memoir. --The Advocate Told with understandable rage, quirky humor, and extraordinary humanity, this remarkable woman's engaging account deserves a large readership. --Booklist A frank, bitingly humorous memoir. --Kirkus Reviews [Galloway] is dexterous in her use of words and devastating with a sense of black humor that brings numerous laugh-out-loud delights. --John R. Killacky, The Gay and Lesbian Review Galloway was born a storyteller, and her narrative gifts are in full force throughout, spinning yarns about herself and her family that mesmerize. --Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful. -Dorothy Allison Galloway was born a storyteller, and her narrative gifts are in full force throughout, spinning yarns about herself and her family that mesmerize. - Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle This is not your mother's triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir. Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Her story will fascinate, it will hurt, and you will like it. -Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home The most uncomfortable laughter of the season. - Out One of the finest, most nakedly honest and humorous autobiographies out there to be read. . . . Partly David Sedaris-esque in its slice-of- You don't have to be mean, little, deaf or queer to take heart from this miraculously unsentimental, deliriously funny, refreshingly spite-free, joyously weirdo-embracing memoir. All you have to be is human. Like Augusten Burroughs, Frank McCourt, and Mary Karr, Terry Galloway has written a memoir that transcends its hilarious particularities to achieve the universality of true art. --Sarah Bird, author of How Perfect is That and The Mommy Club Terry Galloway has written a gripping memoir--at times harrowing, at times starkly moving--that chronicles a life beset by two enormous challenges: growing up gay in a very red State, and growing up deaf. Lesser mortals would fold, but Galloway navigates the highs and lows of her life with grace, insight, and unflinching candor. My hat's off to her as an author, and as a fellow human being. --Doug Wright, playwright, librettist, screenplay writer and winner of both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Cast by society as an outsider for most of her life, both in her queerness and her deafness, I am reminded, reading Terry Galloway's brilliant memoir, that most good writers create from an outsider position, a place of inner isolation and silent engagement with the deep issues of life. Galloway has suffered in her life, but with great bravery, and is indeed a very good writer who uses her lifelong separateness to reveal truths about the human heart that apply to us all. --Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain This is not your mother's triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir. Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Her story will fascinate, it will hurt, and you will like it. --Alison Bechdel, author of FUN HOME This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful. This story is true and passionate and fearless and funny as hell when it is not heartbreaking. I expect this book to charm the hell out of great numbers of people, piss off a few, and give hope to many more... --Dorothy Allison

This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful.--Dorothy Allison This is not your mother's triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir. Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Her story will fascinate, it will hurt, and you will like it. --Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home The most uncomfortable laughter of the season. -- Out One of the finest, most nakedly honest and humorous autobiographies out there to be read. . . . Partly David Sedaris-esque in its slice-of-life essay moments, part slapstick farce, so very real, and always laugh out loud hilarious. --Rebecca Sarwate, Edge [A] humorous and harrowing new memoir. -- The Advocate Told with understandable rage, quirky humor, and extraordinary humanity, this remarkable woman's engaging account deserves a large readership. -- Booklist A frank, bitingly humorous memoir. -- Kirkus Reviews [Galloway] is dexterous in her use of words and devastating with a sense of black humor that brings numerous laugh-out-loud delights. --John R. Killacky, The Gay and Lesbian Review Galloway was born a storyteller, and her narrative gifts are in full force throughout, spinning yarns about herself and her family that mesmerize. --Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle

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Known for her cross-dressing roles in Shakespeare and at Austin's legendary Esther's Follies, Terry Galloway has toured internationally as a solo artist and with P.S. 122's Field Trips. As a giant rodent, she heads up Mickee Faust, a community theater for Tallahassee's weird, queer, disability community. When not touring, she lives in Tallahassee with her wife, two cats, and a bevy of friends and family.

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