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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays
Lauren HoughAs an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. The cult took her all over the globe--to Germany, Japan, Texas, Chile—but it wasn't until she finally left for good that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond "The Family."
Along the way, she's loaded up her car & started over, trading one life for the next. She's taken pilgrimages to the sights of her youth, been kept in solitary confinement, dated a lot of women, dabbled in drugs, & eventually found herself as what she always wanted to be: a writer. Here, as she sweeps through the underbelly of America—relying on friends, family, & strangers alike—she begins to excavate a new identity even as her past continues to trail her & color her world, relationships, & perceptions of self.
At once razor-sharp, profoundly brave, & often very, very funny, the essays in Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing interrogate our notions of ecstasy, queerness, & what it means to live freely. Each piece is a reckoning: of survival, identity, & how to reclaim one's past when carving out a future.
LAUREN HOUGH was born in Germany & raised in seven countries & West Texas. She’s been an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a green-aproned barista, a bartender, a livery driver, and, for a time, a cable guy. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, The Guardian, & HuffPost. She lives in Austin.
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