Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy

Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.

Women destroy me. I allow them to.

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature.