Homebody : Theo Parish

A Graphic Memoir of Gender Identity Exploration | Paperback YA A YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist This beautifully rendered and buoyantly written graphic novel memoir debut tells the deeply personal story of a nonbinary person finding a home in their own body. In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir about the journey one nonbinary person takes to find a home within themself. Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken gender binary rules of high school, from harrowing haircuts and finally the right haircut, to the intersection of gender identity and sexuality—and through tiny everyday moments that all led up to Theo finding the term “nonbinary,” which finally struck a chord. “Have you ever had one of those moments when all of a sudden things become clear…like someone just turned on a light?”