Publisher's Synopsis
They weren't trying to be pretty. They were trying to be free.
After being beaten in a Mississippi bar, Ariella boards a Greyhound to Los Angeles, chasing something like safety. In West Hollywood, she finds a makeshift sisterhood of trans women-lost, brilliant, radiant, wounded. Led into a canyon house by a man named Marlo, the girls are promised shelter, belonging, and purpose.
But promises have prices.
The girls must decide what kind of story they are living-and if they will keep following a script written by someone else.
Home Is Not a Mirror is a raw and luminous novel of survival, identity, cult psychology, and trans resistance. Gritty yet tender, it is a requiem for the erased-and a love letter to the ones who stayed.
