Some people spend there entire lives trying to answer that one question.
Some figure it out, while others feel they will never know. This is a story of a Black homosexual woman discovering herself in a racist, homophobic american society. This is a story of a person surviving. Lorde calls this story a biomythography, which means, a invented or made-up life story. Aside from the literal definition, after I read the book, I thought Lorde was also describing how she viewed the way she was raised by her parents.