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Cake Walk - 2nd Edition
Paperback
Series: For the Love of Cake
General GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $21.50
Publisher: Bumbershoot Press
Published: Jun 16 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This version is the 2nd Edition of the original version published in 2022.
You did everything right. You learned the rules, worked hard, stayed composed, and built a life that earned respect. You became the person everyone expected you to be. Because in a world that doesn't always make room for you, belonging can feel like survival. But what if the life you built no longer feels like your own?
Bryan Hicks knows that feeling. A successful Black executive in Houston's oil and gas industry, he has spent decades mastering control, conformity, and the performance of heterosexual masculinity. Then he meets Nadia-a confident transgender woman who lives openly and unapologetically.
Falling in love with her forces Bryan to confront questions he's spent a lifetime avoiding. Is he betraying the community that shaped him? Or discovering a deeper truth about who he has always been?
Through love, meditation, and Buddhist wisdom, Bryan begins a journey beyond shame, fear, and expectation toward a life lived honestly. What follows is a new kind of coming-out story-one that asks whether coming out is not about becoming someone else, but finally embracing the person you have always been.
As you read, your own experience is mirrored-the pressure to perform, the longing to belong, the fear of being seen, and the courage it takes to become yourself. Cake Walk (2nd Edition) is a groundbreaking queer literary novel exploring cis-trans romance, queer identity, community, spiritual awakening, and the transformative power of living your truth.
Why I Wrote Cake Walk
I wrote Cake Walk because I couldn't find stories about men loving a transgender woman. Inspired by my 25-year meditation practice and therapy, the novel explores choosing the unknown over fear and asks whether some trans-attracted men may discover their sexuality is more flexible than they believed. My hope is to inspire liberation, belonging, and the courage to live truthfully.
Content Warnings: Cake Walk contains material that might prove to be explicit sexual content and contains potentially triggering subject matter, including racism, homophobia, transphobia, and hate speech
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