Over 150 million copies sold worldwide! Mr. Cheerful walks through life with a smile on his face, but he’s got a less-than-cheerful secret to hide.

The tchotchkes of queer culture--codes and signifiers--get scrambled together in these stories and then blown up into an improbable soufflé.

But until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never told this astonishing tale in their own way and with their own words. For Leigh Anne and Sean, it all begins with family.

A portion of the sale of this book will be donated to Reading Partners, a youth literacy program, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Charleston, South Carolina.

Among their number is Gwyneth Lewis. And she set about writing this book simply because she wished something like it had existed for her when she was in the middle of her depression. Depression is assassination.