Each piece is a reckoning: of survival, identity, and how to reclaim one's past when carving out a future. At once razor-sharp, profoundly brave, and often very, very funny, the essays in Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing interrogate our notions of ecstasy, queerness, and what it means to live freely. Here, as she sweeps through the underbelly of America-relying on friends, family, and strangers alike-she begins to excavate a new identity even as her past continues to trail her and color her world, relationships, and perceptions of self. Lauren Hough Huffington Post Dec 2018 25 min. The cult took her all over the globe 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 and started over, trading one life for the next. A glimpse of life on the suburban road, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs.īy purchasing a book from BookPeople, you are not only supporting a local, independent business, but you are also showing publishers that they should continue sending authors to BookPeople.'Hough's conversational prose reads like the voice of a blues singer, taking breaks between songs to narrate her heartbreak in verse, cajoling her audience to laugh to keep from crying' - The New York Times 'Hough's writing will break your heart' - Roxane Gay, author of Difficult Women 'Each one told with the wit of David Sedaris, and the insight of Joan Didion' - Telegraph 'This moving account of resilience and hard-earned agency brims with a fresh originality' - Publishers Weekly Searing and extremely personal essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with the darkest elements the country can manifest - cults, homelessness, and hunger - while discovering light and humor in unexpected corners. She also maintains the Ask Molly Substack newsletter, written by Polly’s evil twin. Heather Havrilesky writes New York’s Ask Polly advice column and is the author of What If This Were Enough (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2010). Her work has appeared in Granta, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, The Guardian, and HuffPost. Air Force, a green-aproned barista, a bartender, a livery driver, and, for a time, a cable guy. She grew up in Christian free-love doomsday cult The Family, which her father had joined around 1970 to dodge the Vietnam War draft.At 18, Hough fled to the Air Force, where she got anti-lesbian death threats and her car was set ablaze. Lauren Hough was born in Germany and raised in seven countries and West Texas. In a queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you writer Lauren Hough. Each piece is a reckoning: of survival, identity, and how to reclaim one’s past when carving out a future. Here, as she sweeps through the underbelly of America-relying on friends, family, and strangers alike-she begins to excavate a new identity even as her past continues to trail her and color her world, relationships, and perceptions of self.Īt once razor-sharp, profoundly brave, and often very, very funny, the essays in Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing interrogate our notions of ecstasy, queerness, and what it means to live freely. She’s taken pilgrimages to the sights of her youth, been kept in solitary confinement, dated a lot of women, dabbled in drugs, and eventually found herself as what she always wanted to be: a writer. She says she remembers being taught animals could talk to Noah that's how he was able to get. 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.”Īlong the way, she’s loaded up her car and started over, trading one life for the next. Writer Lauren Hough grew up in a nomadic doomsday Christian cult called the Children of God. Having grown up in a cult and served in the U. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. Author of viral essay I was a Cable Guy, Lauren Hough shares a skill every straight, white male should learn. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.Īs an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Searing and extremely personal essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with the darkest elements the country can manifest-cults, homelessness, and hunger-while discovering light and humor in unexpected corners.
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