Affliction - by Laura Hall (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A daughter's tender and frank account of growing up with a closeted gay father whose double life became her inheritance and, in adulthood, the path to her own healing.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In 1937, at the age of nineteen, Ralph Hall, suicidal, revealed his sexual orientation to his grandmother, knowing she would comfort him. He was out for three years afterwards, until an indiscretion sent him back into the closet. At twenty-four, while in the army, he met and married Irene. The couple made their home on the San Francisco Peninsula and had four children. Ralph was an attentive husband and father--albeit with an intense interest in interior design, flower arranging, and fine objects--and a diligent worker who rose to payroll accountant at Standard Oil. <p/>It wasn't until 1975 that Ralph came out to his middle daughter, Laura, telling her that he had once considered his sexuality an aberration, an affliction. She was shocked, as the possibility her father might be gay had never crossed her mind. Irene had known Ralph's secret for eighteen years, but the two remained married until she died. It was only then that this charismatic man and devoted father, by now in his eighties, could freely express his authentic, gay self. <p/>Here, Laura paints a vivid and honest portrait of her beloved father and the effect his secret had on her own life. <br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"This moving memoir is about not just a daughter, not just a father, but a whole family, one that's impossible not to love. Hall's writing is honest and insightful and her story a comfort and a gem." <br> --Victoria Loustalot, author of <i>This is How You Say Goodbye</i> and <i>Living Like Audrey: Life Lessons from the Fairest Lady of All</i> <p/> "This book shares a vital perspective that, until now, was missing from the LGBTQ community's understanding of its own history. Hall finally adds the missing puzzle piece: the voice of the children of gay parents, a group that has long stood in the shadows. We are given a rare and precious gift as she warmly invites the reader into the world of her closeted family and shares a perspective that is deeply loving and raw in its honesty." <br> --Robin Marquis, former national program director of COLAGE <p/> "<i>Affliction</i> is a loving and tender portrait of a relationship and a family. It's also an important addition to the history of gay parents in America and of the particular challenges faced by gay men and women in the years before Stonewall." <br> --Alysia Abbott, author of <i>Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father</i> <p/> "<i>Affliction</i> is one of the most moving and compelling books I've ever read. It reveals the bravery and the suffering of the gay men who hid their secrets and carried on. They married, often, and had children. Laura Hall is one of those children, and she wouldn't trade her father for anybody's." <br> --Adair Lara, author of <i>Naked, Drunk, and Writing</i> and columnist for the <i>San Francisco Chronicle </i> <p/> "Laura's book is one that will touch the heart of anyone who has dealt with coming out in a family setting."<br> --Mark Segal, the nation's most award-winning commentator in LGBTQ media and author of <i>And Then I Danced </b><br>
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