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A memoir
Straight Enough
Raised in fundamentalist Christianity, Lorinda Boyer learned early how to be good. She married her high school sweetheart at eighteen, built a spotless Christian home, and became a devoted mother of two. From the outside, her life looked obedient, stable—exactly as prescribed. Inside, something essential was quietly unraveling.
When Lorinda falls in love with a woman for the first time, the life she has so carefully constructed begins to crack. Trapped between faith and desire, doctrine and truth, she is pushed into a double life that exacts a devastating cost. What follows is not just a reckoning with sexuality, but with shame, control, addiction, and the terrifying freedom of honesty.
Straight Enough is more than a coming-out story. It is a coming-into—into body, voice, and self. A fierce, intimate memoir about leaving what nearly kills you and choosing a life that finally tells the truth.
2024 Screenplay Award Genre Winners
Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2024 Screenplay Award Genre Winners! These genre winners have been chosen from our Finalists, Longlist and Shortlist.
Straight Enough, by Lorinda Boyer has won best LGBT Screenplay Genre Award.
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Straight Enough from The Sober Curator by Amy Liz Harrison
reviews
Straight Enough…
I loved this book! Ms Boyer is wonderfully bold in telling her story…a story that is deeply moving and at times just plain heartbreaking. Her writing is crisp, evocative, accented with humor – and always captivating. This is a story that resonates with many of us who struggled with being gay in our young lives. This is a story that resonates with many of us who tried desperately to live straight lives – for as long as our hearts and mental health allowed. This is story that resonates with many of us who broke free of that painful life and walked out into the full light of our real lives. Thank you, Ms Boyer!
I love how this writer put you right in the story with her. Incredible journey of living ones true self and over coming adversities.
A Memoir
Body Enough
Body, Enough is a raw, fearless memoir of a woman who spent decades chasing thinness, fitness, and control—only to discover that real strength begins where self-punishment ends. From seventh-grade shame to postpartum desperation, from gym-floor spectacle to surgical surrender, this is the story of learning to live inside a body that never stopped trying to save her. Honest, gritty, and fiercely human, Body, Enough is for anyone who’s ever believed their worth was measured in pounds.
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Body, Enough…
Wonderfully told!! You’ve found your authentic self and inspire so many others to do the same. Thank you for sharing the ups and downs of being human, and encouraging everyone to be courageous and gracious on their own journey.
What a journey we are taken on. One that leads to self acceptance. Bristling with energy and honesty, it’s a path that everyone can relate to.
Written beautifully and quite raw. Takes me back to my own reflection of oneself and the battle I am taking on currently.
Thank you for sharing.
I have read BODY ENOUGH several times. Like all of Lorinda’s work, it is honest, straightforward, and so very real. It has stuck with me…I will continue to re-read it.
Praise for “Body, Enough” by Lorinda Boyer
Outstanding! I don’t think any of us would encounter a female in our culture who has not struggled, perhaps a lifetime, with the same kind of experiences that you describe so painfully well. Thank you for your courage, Lorinda. You have helped every woman who is fortunate enough to read your micro-memoir including me.
ANTHOLOGY
Spring and All
Red Wheelbarrow Writers put out a call for submissions to their fourth anthology, Spring and All inspired by William Carlos Williams’ volume of poetry of the same name. Williams is often considered an uplifting voice amid the harsh realities of the world, and that is our vision for this anthology.
In response to the call for pieces embodying a sense of uplift (an elevated condition of the body, mind, or spirit), Lorinda’s story “Show Them Love” sees a group of drag queens shut down a group of protesters at a gay pride parade. “Let’s show these boys some love!”
In this video Linda Quinby Lambert interviews Lorinda about her essay and also speaks to her about her memoir “Straight Enough.”