Mississippi Sissy -- Kevin Sessums

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     First Edition, St. Martin's Press, 2007, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap  - Memoirs - 305pp. ISBN 9781869209001.

Kevin Sessums recounts his childhood and adolescence in the South, explaining how he coped with being different from the other boys in the region and how he refused to accept their labels and discriminations.

As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word sissy on its head, just as his mother taught him. In Jackson, he is befriended by Eudora Welty and journalist Frank Hains, but when Hains is brutally murdered in his antebellum mansion, Kevins long road north towards celebrity begins. In his memoir, Kevin Sessums brings to life the pungent American south of the 1960s and the world of the strange little boy who grew there.

Mississippi Sissy is an unforgettable memoir. I think it will strike a strong chord with many, many readers. Its a far different book than Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, but it cast the same kind of spell over me while I was reading it. Mark Childress, author of Georgia Bottoms

What a writer! What honesty! Kevin Sessums seamlessly weaves his heart-breaking, funny, outrageous, cant-put-it-down story. Read it! Read it! Read it! Then read it again. Ellen DeGeneres

A book Ive been waiting for most of my life . . . by a writer who is equally at home with Flannery OConnor and Jacqueline Susann. Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prizewinning author

Kevin Sessums is a brilliant writer. He is also a courageous one. Mississippi Sissy is beautifully toldhilarious yet harrowing, tragic yet inspiring. This book will deeply touch anyone who has ever felt different, which means every single one of us. E. Lynn Harris, New York Timesbestselling author

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