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

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

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

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.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

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

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