Summary

Samra imagines her dream home. It is a place where her family all lives together and where they have the love, support, and encouragement she lacked as a child and teenager. Her family is surrounded by community and Samra is able to be open with her parents about her dreams, goals, and identity. Samra then segues into a discussion of home and childhood homes, in particular, wondering how the circumstances of one's upbringing shape one's future. In her thirties, she still feels weighed down by "feelings of displacement, by the trauma of growing up without safety, without home" (191). She begins to see a therapist and starts to process the events of her childhood, writing a letter to her seven-year-old self.

After coming out publically in an article she wrote for The Guardian, Samra awaits her parents' response nervously. When her mother notes that it...