" One of the best autobios I've ever read. Still - a gay orphan growing up in Mississippi in the 50s and 60s? He's entitled to write his memoir. " The author had me until the last third, where some overly graphic scenes and once-too-many repeated thoughts/themes eroded the book somewhat.
A couple of decades can really make a difference. Makes you long for days gone by as well as make you happy that we live in the society we do today. " Extremely entertaining in both a tragic and comic sense.
Summed up well in the last reference of a book full of references - those were the two topics his digressions always came home to. The writing was engaging and seemingly honest. " A book of tangents but I think that was the point. I would have thought that his life would have been more than just that, although maybe that was the aspect he wanted to focus on. I liked the idea of the book but it seemed like his sexual exploration was the focus of the content of the book. Following this story brought back memories from my own struggles. " Growing up gay in rural Mississippi is tough. " A wonderful story of the deep south during a very difficult time, and in spite of everything, a fascinating gathering of creative minds found each other. What more could you ask for in a gay memoir. Insightful and moving, yet fun and bitchy. A memoir of a gay boy growing up in rural Mississippi during the Civil Rights era. " truth is perhaps the most painful and necessary thing we have " - Tammy, Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.Not for the squeamish-not for sissies?-this scabrous honesty. So what if the level of detail is sometimes unappetizing? So are Hazel Motes, Flem Snopes, and Mrs. It made me laugh/cry/gasp/look away/peek through my fingers. In a memoir that echoes bestsellers like The Liar's Club, Kevin Sessums brings to life the pungent American south of the 1960s and the world of the strange little boy who grew there. In Jackson, he is befriended by Eudora Welty and journalist Frank Hains, but when Hains is brutally murdered in his antebellum mansion, Kevin's long road north towards celebrity begins. Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South.Īs he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word "sissy" on its head, just as his mother taught him.
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