The Girls of Usually by Lori Horvitz

Buy this book at Amazon or for Kindle

Winner: 2015 USA Best Book Award, Gay & Lesbian Non-Fiction Honorable Mention: 2015 Rainbow Awards Finalist: Saints & Sinners Emerging Writer Award — Lori Horvitz grew up ashamed of her Eastern European Jewish roots, confused about her sexuality, and idolizing the “shiksa in her living room,” a blonde all-American girl whose photo came in a double frame and was displayed next to a family photo from a bar mitzvah. Unable to join the “happy blonde families,” she becomes a “hippie chick” who travels the world in search of … something. “The Girls of Usually” chronicles each trip, each romance, each experiment in reinventing herself that draws her closer to discovering the secret door through which she can escape from deep-rooted patterns and accept her own cultural, ethnic, and sexual identity.