Firebird

"A beautifully written, hallucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby-boom America."  — Newsweek

In his powerful autobiography, Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland''s "Get Happy" by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door, exclaiming, "Son, you''re a boy!"

Firebird presents us with a h...