Libba Bray
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"Libba Bray" is an American people/American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners.

She lived in Texas until she was 26 years old. After that she moved to New York City, where she now lives with her husband and fifteen-year-old son. Her father was a preacher and her mother, a teacher. In her autobiography on her official site she states:

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It started a whole new chapter in my life to discover my father was gay, ... I think it's very hard to discover that everything you thought you knew up to the age of 14 is out the window.

There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is, ... And it never stops.

(It was) the fact that he had to keep secrets -- and I became a secret-keeper, ... You can't really marginalize or ghettoize a whole sector of the population, because it forces people into a life of shame. That, of course, trickles down.

My dad died 10 years ago, ... He was an AIDS death. I was fortunate that I was able to take two or three months off and be with him at the end. We were very close.

Amen, sister, ... All apologies to Tom Cruise.

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.