ROAD HOME, written by Rex Ogle and read by Ramon De Ocampo

Ramon De Ocampo’s narrative power in Rex Ogle’s fourth and final memoir, ROAD HOME, is easy to comprehend. He has read all three previous memoirs beginning with Rex’s sixth grade year. Now De Ocampo expresses quandaries and emotions of seventeen-year-old Rex who acts on an attraction to a man for the first time. This is quickly followed by his father’s dictate—give up being gay or get out. De Ocampo tracks Rex’s heartache, leaving home then realizing he has no place to go. Finding his crush in New Orleans, De Ocampo expresses Rex’s many vulnerabilities in a complicated first relationship with an older man. De Ocampo continues to capture Rex’s rawness and resilience as he flees this abuse to live unhoused, penniless and hungry. The afterwords reveals his well-deserved happily ever after. Discover more about this book at the purchase link below.