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Coming Home

A Memoir

Sawyer Cole

Release Date: 3/21/23

Buy Link: https://amzn.to/3yVbQCx

Also Available on #KindleUnlimited

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Coming from a small, rural town in North Carolina, Sawyer grapples with what it means to grow up queer, where the population of queer people was, to the untrained eye, non-existent. Nuanced with the societal constructs of the gender binary, they deconstruct what it means to be queer in an evangelical Southern family. From growing up being a family proclaimed “tomboy,” to joining the Army under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Sawyer brings you a collection of essays detailing everything from coming out, to family life to church hurt and everything in between. Candid, honest, insightful, and sometimes breathtakingly haunting, Coming Home is all about finding your queer voice in a heteronormative world. With an honest zeal for life, this set of essays will show you what it truly means to come home.

"Sawyer Cole's heart shines in this honest, raw, hopeful, and beautifully written memoir. COMING HOME is equal parts battle cry and comforting embrace; an account of deep trauma and healing, and a call to action as the queer community continues fighting for basic rights. Cole writes with incredible sensitivity, care, and love that can be felt on every page. Readers, especially those needing to hear "you are enough", welcome home."

• Courtney Kae, author of In the Event of Love

"Sawyer Cole's memoir Coming Home is such a heartfelt, personal journey through love and identity and coming-of-age. The vulnerable way they share their life's story could help so many people in claiming their own. I read it with my heart in my throat and am grateful that Cole is here and writing their experience." 

• Alicia Thompson, national bestselling author of Love in the Time of Serial Killers

“ Every so often, a memoir comes along that touches your heart, soul, and funny bone. Sawyer Cole's remarkable Coming Home asks you to think while also making you feel. Finding beauty in life's lessons can be challenging, but Cole teaches us about the incredible healing power of love. Not to be missed from this author to watch. “

• M.A. Wardell, debut author of Teacher of the Year

“Brave, beautiful, and raw. Cole leaves their soul right there on the page.”

• Shannon Jump, author of My Only Sunshine

  
  

  
  

  
  ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

  Sawyer Cole is from small town Yadkinville, North Carolina. They currently reside in Green Bay, Wisconsin with their fiancée and three kids. They are currently enrolled in the graduate program at Southern New Hampshire University in the child and adolescent psychology program. When they aren’t wrangling three children, their hobbies include reading, writing, and all things book related. They have been an avid reader late adulthood. They’re also an avid football fan: Go Pack Go!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  Coming Home

  Written By

  Sawyer Cole Hobson

  Review By

  Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews

  First, I want to thank Sawyer Cole Hobson and Kate Rock Book Tours for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.

  
  

  WOW!! Sawyer Cole Hobson is incredibly brave to open up their heart and share their deeply raw personal story in Coming Home. In this beautifully written story Sawyer shares their ups, downs, and revelations along the way to their journey home. 

  
  

  Hangry Creates did a gorgeous job creating the graphics for Sawyer’s book Coming Home! I love how cartoony and colorful the graphics are. Great job! 

  
  

  I appreciated Sawyer caring about their readers' mental health in Coming Home by expressing this in a letter to their readers. They are understanding that this book may not be for everyone. In Coming Home they discuss important topics that include suicide, suicide ideation, homophobia, transphobia, dead naming, abandonment and self-harm.

  
  

  Sawyer did a fantastic job educating her readers on many important topics. 

  
  

  My heart was so happy and I had a Koolaid grin on my face reading all about Sawyer’s love story!! They are truly blessed to have found each other. 

  
  

  Being part of the bookstagram family I really enjoyed reading about their experiences with it. 

  
  

  Sawyer’s story was eye opening at times as their journey really resonated with me on a personal level.