Billy Porter is an outstanding narrator, and he is incredibly generous with his memoir of adversity and triumphs. The racism and homophobia that formed him are as heartbreaking as the talent and drive he used to make an incredible life for himself are astonishing. 

I marked the pace as slow, more because the book is long than because it unfolds in a pokey way. I hope the book adds to his emotional and financial security because trauma is the gift that never stops giving.