I was recommended this book by a friend of mine who is a priest. I'm bisexual, with a leaning preference towards homosexual, but also a committed Catholic and so I've been struggling with reconciling the two for a long time. It took me a long time to simply accept my sexuality, because growing up I very much wanted to make my family proud and be a good Catholic. So I didn't end up coming out until very late in my life. When I did, though, I had to catch up, so to speak, in terms of my sexual development. My faith still is very important to me and I never wanted to just throw away everything because of something that I found to be a hard teaching. I felt that the typical way that Catholics addressed homosexuality, while not necessarily wrong, weren't helpful to someone who was struggling with sexual temptation. Most outreach was directed towards heterosexual individuals (understandably, given that they're more common). For them, they could abstain until marriage. For homosexuals, the promise of marriage isn't there, and it was very hard to find anyone who would talk about how we must deal with the temptation. It also got confusing for me, knowing at an intellectual level that love for others isn't prohibited, even for gay people, but still feeling apprehension about where the specific limits are. At what point does it get to be too far? At what point are we committing adultery, even in our minds? At what point are we skirting the edge of the cliff and willfully putting ourselves in a place where temptation will eventually lead us to step over the edge?I am lucky that I had a lot of people in my family and friends who are compassionate and have been praying for me. When I picked up this book, I found it difficult to put it down. This was probably one of the first times I was able to listen to someone who had many of the same questions I had, was going through a lot of the same struggles that I was, but found a path and was able to live according to the fullness of Church teachings without trying to lie to herself or reject aspects of her own being. While she doesn't prescribe specific answers to all of my questions, she doesn't intend to. Instead, I think she did something even better than that: she explains, in detail, her journey and how she was able to find a way to both love and feel fulfilled in her life and her faith, not despite her homosexuality, but through it. This kind of example and support is something that I think gay Catholics (and Christians, in general) is something that is very much needed. As I read the book and finished it, I felt a renewed sense of peace and determination. Where before I had gone through many cycles of anxiety and struggled with whether I could even reconcile my faith and who I was, here, I found someone who came out the other side with both her faith and her self intact, and I knew that I could do so as well.I find myself recommending this book to others quite a bit. It helped me in so many ways, and I hope that it can help others in the same way. It's an easy read, not too wordy or overly theological. It's both interesting and insightful. She's very open in her writing about what she's gone through and doesn't try to force any particular views upon the reader. She just describes her experience and journey, but in a way that ropes you in. I found myself finishing the book very quickly.I don't think that you even need to be a Catholic to find this book useful. Her struggles as a Catholic, and her life journey, can provide insight and help for any Christian who is trying to figure out how to serve God as a homosexual.I want to give a wholehearted thank you to Eve Tushnet for giving us this book and offering her own life experiences to help others going through the same struggles!