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The Straight Man Who Thought He Was Gay
By Faraz Kalash
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Description
Written from the nervous system outward, this memoir traces how early trauma can influence desire, bonding, and self-understanding. Born in Pakistan and later finding his way to the tech corridors of Silicon Valley, Faraz spends decades living a life that functions on the surface while carrying unresolved trauma in the body.
Across classrooms and dance floors, offices and mountain trails, the narrative follows a long, nonlinear process of healing through steady relationships, somatic therapy, movement, and community. What once froze begins to thaw. What scattered slowly gathers.
With an engineer's precision and a restrained, sensory voice, the book moves away from sanded-down wellness solutions and into lived bodily experience-how dissociation protects, how safety returns, and how agency re-emerges not through insight alone, but through learning to follow bodily instincts.
This is a first book, written for those-especially men-who carry invisible bruises and are ready to trade the mask of belonging for a deeper, embodied sense of self.
This memoir is about trauma, not sexual orientation. It affirms LGBTQ+ identities and does not question or challenge them.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Number of Pages:
- 204
- Release Date:
- 2026-01-21
- Publication Date:
- 2026-01-21
- Publisher:
- Faraz Kalash
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN13:
- 9798994392201
- Weight:
- 252 g
- Height:
- 127 cm
- Width:
- 203 cm
- Thickness:
- 12 cm
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