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Cleanly sliced into two parts, this spare novel of complicated ambitions — personal, professional and familial — pits three people against their perceived places in the world as well as their rarely acknowledged shadow selves.

He labels some of these parts our exiles — the wounded selves that hold our deepest pain.

His work and home selves are one and the same.

Some still have visions of their younger selves, taking over games and dominating.

She told me she hoped the book would "help folks, no matter their sexual orientation or gender identity, feel a little more connected to their most authentic selves".