![]() ![]() How did you navigate the impact these various things might have had on her? There’s nothing wrong with that, but I think we also have to be very willing to go easy on ourselves and be willing to allow for shift and changes in that.īefore the book even begins, Ramona and her family have been through a lot because of Hurricane Katrina and then her mom leaving. ![]() So I wanted to write a book about that shift in identity and how we take such great comfort in our labels. It was this really happy time in my life and honeymoon period in my marriage when I should’ve been really thrilled, but I was having to come to terms with this shift in identity because I would never, for as long as we’re married, experience that feeling of walking into a restaurant and holding hands with a girl, and for people to just identify me as queer. I’ve always dated both guys and girls, and when I married my husband, I experienced this really weird thing that I didn’t expect to experience in that I kind of felt like I wasn’t straight enough for all the straight community and I wasn’t gay enough anymore for the queer community. I’ve always been bisexual or pansexual or queer or whatever label you want to put on it. But I felt a lot more tied to this book in a really personal ways that people can’t see just by looking at you. People can look at me and make assumptions about how I might relate to that book. My second book, Dumplin’, is about me in very obvious ways. You’ve said this is a more personal story for you. ![]()
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