IT’S NEVER TOO LATE FOR A NEW BEGINNING

Next year’s Valentine’s Day seems ages away especially as we haven’t got through Thanksgiving yet, but nearly all of the Queerguru Team are suckers for a queer happy-ever-after story.  This one by  Suzette Mullen an author and a New York Times Modern Love contributor is an introspective, bittersweet, and empowering, memoir that is particularly hard to put down

Suzette Mullen had been raised to play it safe—and she hated causing others pain. With college and law degrees, a kind and successful husband, two thriving adult sons, and an ocean-view vacation home, she lived a life many people would envy. But beneath the happy facade was a woman who watched her friends walk boldly through their lives and wondered what was holding her back from doing the same.

Digging into her past, Suzette uncovered a deeply buried truth: she’d been in love with her best friend—a woman—for nearly two decades—and still was. Leaning into these “unspeakable” feelings would put Suzette’s identity, relationships, and life of privilege at risk—but taking this leap might be her only chance to feel fully alive. As Suzette opened herself up to new possibilities, an unexpected visit to a new city helped her discover who she was meant to be.

Suzette Mullen is the founder of Your Story Finder nonfiction book coaching and a founding board member of the Lancaster (PA) LGBTQ+ Coalition. Her “tiny love story,” the seed that became her new book, The Only Way Through is Out, was published in the New York Times “Modern Love” column. Mullen is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Wellesley College.

“The Only Way Through is Out”
Suzette Mullen
Feb. 13, 2024
University of Wisconsin Press