If You Knew Then What I Know Now

The acclaimed author explores his path from closeted child to out-and-proud adult in this deeply personal collection of fourteen linked essays.   “[A] moving debut. . . . Thanks to Van Meter’s honesty, essays on his own childhood, identity, and love have a profoundly universal appeal.” — Publishers Weekly   The middle American coming-of-age has found new life in Ryan Van Meter’s coming-out, made as strange as it is familiar by acknowledging the role played by gender and