Mississippi Sissy

As a southerner and proponent of gay rights, I was intrigued by this memoir. Early on, I began to realize that I found it hard to trust Sessums in his accounts of what he thought and felt as a very young child. Not that I think he doesn't know or remember, but that he seems willing to attribute extr......more

Astonished. What can I say. As a gay boy who grew up a sissy in the South, I completely identified with the alienation that Sessums felt. But the ability of this boy/man to transcend the most awful of setbacks early in life is without a doubt one of the more inspiring stories I've ever read. I finis......more

Mississippi Sissy is one of those books that changes you. We dove right in, and were instantly enveloped in this fascinating, heart-breaking, humorous, Southern life story. Afterwards, it felt as if the world weren't quite the same place that it was before we began, and that's a really good thing. H......more

Gah. Found this paperback when unpacking boxes in my new apartment. Hadn't read it in year but so very happy to have re-read it. Will always be one of my favorites and such an important read to me as a gay kid raised in the south.......more

This autobiography started off well enough but then descended into a long drawn out affair that sadly became a chore to finish. Sessums repeats himself endlessly but I blame the editor for not stopping this self-indulgence. Did the editor just pack it in half-way through the autobiography? Maybe I s......more