Road Home

When Rex was outed the summer after he graduated high school, his father gave him a choice: he could stay at home, find a girlfriend and attend church twice a week or he could be gay-and leave. Rex left, driving toward the only other gay man he knew and a toxic relationship that would ultimately leave him homeless and desperate on the streets of New Orleans. Here, Rex tells the story of his coming out and his father's rejection of his identity, navigating abuse and survival on the streets. Road Home is a devastating and incandescent reflection on Rex's hunger-for food, for love and for a place to call home-completing the trilogy of memoirs that began with the award-winning Free Lunch.

About the author

Rex Ogle is the author of Free Lunch, which won the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Abuela Don’t Forget Me, a finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award; Punching Bag; and the novel When We Ride. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Product details

• Authors: Rex Ogle
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 03.03.2026
• EAN: 9781324083276
• ISBN: 978-1-324-08327-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Mankind; Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, People & places (Children's / Teenage), YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Topics / Sexual Abuse, Social issues (Children's / Teenage), YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / LGBTQ+, Children’s / Teenage: Social topics: Poverty / precarity, Relating to LGBTQIA+ people