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In this lyrical debut, Ryan Berg immerses readers in the gritty, dangerous, and shockingly underreported world of homeless LGBTQ teens in New York. As a caseworker in a group home for disowned LGBTQ teenagers, Berg witnessed the struggles, fears, and ambitions of these disconnected youth as they resisted the pull of the street, tottering between destruction and survival.
Focusing on the lives and loves of eight unforgettable youth, No House to Call My Home traces their efforts to break away from dangerous sex work and cycles of drug and alcohol abuse, and, in the process, to heal from years of trauma. From Bella’s fervent desire for stability to Christina’s irrepressible dreams of stardom to Benny’s continuing efforts to find someone to love him, Berg uncovers the real lives behind the harrowing statistics: over 4,000 youth are homeless in New York City—43 percent of them identify as LGBTQ.
Through these stories, Berg compels us to rethink the way we define privilege, identity, love, and family. Beyond the tears, bluster, and bravado, he reveals the force that allows them to carry on—the irrepressible hope of youth.
- Sales Rank: #469014 in Books
- Published on: 2015-08-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x 1.30" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Review
“Stories of queer homeless youths of color told with humility, self-scrutiny, intelligence, and love. It is a brave and conscientious book, an important book.” —The Brooklyn Rail
“The plight of homeless LGBT youth seldom gets the attention it deserves. Ryan Berg’s book No House To Call My Home is one man’s attempt to remedy that situation…. A sobering look at the lives of a variety of LGBT kids in a version of foster care… Impossible to ignore.” —New York Journal of Books
“A moving account of the many challenges and difficulties facing LGBTQ foster youth in New York City and how the system has failed them.” —Shelf Awareness
“An important and revelatory read.” —The Rumpus
“Just as there is a school-to-prison pipeline in this country, so too, this grim report reveals, is there a home-to-homeless paradigm for many young people. Life on the streets is tough. It is tougher still for LGBT—or, as writer, activist, and former counselor Berg would have it, LGBTQ, the last element meaning "questioning"—kids, who constitute as much as 40 percent of the population of young homeless people... Berg's portraits are arresting… His fraught encounters with individuals become universal, offering a touch of hope…Particularly important for caseworkers and social service specialists, who, by Berg's account, are likely to encounter more young people in the LGBTQ population in the near future.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Ryan’s Berg’s No House to Call My Home is a searing, harrowing, and ultimately inspiring story of the struggles all too many transgender people experience. Berg’s heroes, denied the common decency of house and home, nonetheless refuse to surrender their humanity. Sobering, moving and stirring, No House to Call My Home is a must read for anyone wishing to understand the challenges of transgender men and women—and their caregivers." —Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She’s Not There and Stuck In The Middle With You
"Sometimes we don’t understand the life we find ourselves in the midst of living. Sometimes our longing for home can drive us toward oblivion. Sometimes the best we can do is to create who we have to be in order to get what we need. Sometimes, by immersing ourselves in something larger than ourselves, we can discover who we are. In this moving and clear-eyed account, Ryan Berg reminds us that this moment is more precious than we think, and that sometimes the best we can do is to love each other (damn it). —Nick Flynn, bestselling author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
"Managing to be both journalistic and novelistic, Berg provides intimate portraits of LGBTQ youths who are left to fend for themselves. Compelling from the first page No House to Call My Home is unflinchingly candid in its portrayal of a broken system, and a broken society where abandoning youths is overlooked. Berg allows the brilliance and resilience of these young people to shine bright. The adversity they face should enrage you; their courage and grace will move you.” —Richard Blanco, author of The Prince of los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood
"In No House to Call My Home Berg has given us an antidote to the numbness that comes with reading the statistics on homeless queer youth in America. He's given us their stories. In harrowing, vivid detail, he shows us, through his own experience of working with them, the lives of these young people of color as they struggle through the neglect of adults, the indifference of bureaucracies, and the harsh realities of fending for themselves in a cold world. Again and again, what they are denied is dignity. Which is what this book tries in its own way to give them back, and which is what any social cause requires to initiate lasting change—the opening of empathy." —Adam Haslett, National Book Award Finalist and author of Union Atlantic
"Ryan Berg opens a window into the troubled, often ignored world of New York City's foster care system, and by extension, America. No House to Call My Home is an important work that will be a revelation for many." —Sa�d Sayrafiezadeh, author of Brief Encounters With the Enemy and When Skateboards Will Be Free
"In No House to Call My Home Ryan Berg takes us into the New York foster care system—where he worked for two years as a residential counselor in a group home for LGBTQ youth of color—and gives us, along the way, an earnest, heartfelt, and deeply compassionate portrait of that most fundamental of human needs: to be loved unconditionally. Berg is a brave and clear-eyed writer, and this profoundly important book should be required reading for anyone wishing to be a better ally—or, for that matter, for anyone wishing to be a better human being." —Lacy M. Johnson, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and author of The Other Side
"Ryan Berg's No House to Call My Home takes readers inside the New York State foster care system, where LGBTQ youth who have been abandoned or abused are housed in order to keep them off the streets and out of harm. Residential counselors advise and advocate for these kids, helping them to negotiate institutional red tape, visits with their real families, education, employment and recovery. Berg's chronicle of the lives of the young residents at the 401 and Keap Street shows how much adversity they face and how much strength they draw from one another. These kids are smart, resourceful, brave and fierce. But they are also kids. No House to Call My Home is a call for greater understanding, support and advocacy for these children struggling to stand on their own as they 'age out' of the system and enter adulthood. Challenge and change are the daily currency for them. How are they to succeed with so many obstacles? This book offers suggestions and hope.” —D. A. Powell, author of Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys and Chronic
"What do we owe our children? Who will keep the company of those children forgotten or lost? Ryan Berg ventures an unforgettable tribute to the youth he encountered in the New York foster care system. Zooming in on LGBT youth of color and the forgotten stories of homeless youth in America, No House to Call My Home recalls, remembers, recovers the lives and bodies and truths of the children we leave behind. Home is a story told by children who had to write the fiction of a family for themselves in order to survive. All those voices, in these pages, becoming song." —Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water: A Memoir and The Small Backs of Children: A Novel
"Ryan Berg has transformed his experience of working with queer homeless youth of color into a nonfiction book that reads like a novel—it is tender, intelligent, and addictively engrossing. No House To Call My Home is that rarest of stories—it transports and informs its reader, mesmerizing us first with the beauty of its economical prose, and then with its unblinking gaze at these resilient young people. I was so moved, not only by their stories—at turns hilarious, tragic, and hopeful—but also to stay awake to the reality of their struggle, and the broken parts of our culture that create it. With this book, Berg reminds us how radical and compassionate an act storytelling can be. Not since Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family have I been so impressed with a writer's ability to show us unseen lives, with grace, respect, and clarity." —Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart: The True Story of a Secret Life
About the Author
Ryan Berg is a Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Writers Fellow and received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Local Knowledge and the Sun. Berg has been awarded artist residencies from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Foster Care and LGBTQ youth
By Shelleyrae
No House to Call My Home is a book that illustrates the struggles of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) youth of colour in America's foster system. While the challenges for youth in foster care are numerous, the problems LGBTQ youth face are often compounded by their struggle with gender, sexual, racial and cultural identity. Berg states that 70% of LGBTQ youth in group homes reported experiencing violence based on their LGBTQ status, 100% reported verbal harassment, and 78% of youth were removed or ran away from placement because of hostility towards their LGBTQ status.
The stories in this book offer readers a glimpse into the lives of the LGBTQ youth of colour Berg worked with in two residential units serving the LGBTQ foster youth in New York City. Focusing on a handful of characters, Berg shares their uniformly harrowing stories, often involving histories of childhood physical and sexual abuse, neglect, poverty and victimisation. Now aged between 14 and 21 (21 being the age at which foster children are released from the system) Berg and his colleagues battle to help these youths manage a myriad of issues, including addictions to drugs and high risk behaviours, to improve their chances at living healthy and fulfilling lives.
The stories are affecting, the children's mixture of bravado, naivete, hurt and hope are difficult to read, but I think as a result I am better informed and more understanding of their circumstances. Sadly, most of the young people that we are introduced to in No House To Call Home will age out without the means, skills or opportunity to find stable housing or get a job with a livable wage.
No House to Call My Home is an accessible read for an audience curious about the issue of LGBTQ youth in foster care. I imagine it also would have value for social workers, school counselors, foster carers and LGBTQ youth advocates.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Powerful, Passionate and Absolutely Necessary
By Meghan hatch
Berg has a gift. Not only does he tell important stories, he tells them well. He is also a writer who obviously cares very deeply for his subject. This book was one that needed to be written, and he has given voices to some of the voiceless. I appreciate his honesty, vulnerability, and sensitivity. He is not overly sentimental nor exploitive, but we are able to get very vivid, intense and agonizingly real images of these youth and their lives...lives that are rife with seemingly insurmountable challenges. As an LGBTQ activist and a teacher, I'm grateful to Berg for his in-depth preface, the resource guide at the end, and for the fact that he offers some ideas for solving the problems he illustrates in his book. This is not a misery-loving memoir, but an opportunity for us to learn of the dire situation facing homeless queer youth and to do something about it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
and painful. I consider it a must read for ANYONE ...
By becca
This is one of the most powerful books I have read this year. It is an account of his work with homeless, abused, and drug dependent LGBTQ kids. It is heartbreaking, eye-opening, and painful. I consider it a must read for ANYONE who comes in contact with LGBTQ youth.
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