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Unmasked: The Unapologetic Edition
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ISBN13: 9798182170826
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
NEW SECOND EDITION - EXPANDED - ENHANCED
He prayed the gay away.
Spoiler: it didn't work.
August Quinn was the golden boy: church every Sunday, future neatly mapped, fiancée on his arm, and a closet so deep it echoed. He did everything right. Said the prayers. Followed the rules. Tried desperately to become the version of himself everyone else was most comfortable with.
He prayed the gay away.
Spoiler: it didn't work.
August Quinn was the golden boy: church every Sunday, future neatly mapped, fiancée on his arm, and a closet so deep it echoed. He did everything right. Said the prayers. Followed the rules. Tried desperately to become the version of himself everyone else was most comfortable with.
And then grief kicked the door down.
When the woman who loved him died, the life he had carefully constructed collapsed with her. What followed wasn't a crisis of faith - it was a reckoning.
Because grace showed up uninvited, wearing glitter boots and asking dangerous questions:
What if you were never broken?
What if God wasn't waiting for you to change - but to tell the truth?
Unmasked is a fiercely honest, darkly funny, gloriously messy memoir about what happens when performance stops working. It's a story about loss, survival, queerness, masculinity, neurodivergence, faith, politics, and the exhausting art of trying to remain palatable in a world that rewards self-erasure.
It's about loving a Marine.
Losing people too soon.
Unlearning shame.
Finding chosen family in backyard porch circles, church basements, Lodge halls, therapy offices, and dogs who somehow understood healing better than most humans.
Along the way, Quinn discovers that holiness does not require disappearing. That identity is not a sin. That grief can become resurrection if you survive it honestly enough. And that sometimes the most sacred thing a person can do is stop pretending.
This is not a story about rebellion.
It's a story about becoming whole.
About standing in front of a room - in church, in public life, in love, in grief - and finally saying:
This is who I am.
Without apology.
If you've ever been told you had to choose between being holy and being whole, Unmasked calls absolute bullshit.
This book is your permission slip to stop shrinking.
To stop bargaining for belonging.
To stop apologizing for existing.
Because God doesn't make mistakes.
And baby?
Neither did you.
The mic is on.
The mask is off.
Your turn.
When the woman who loved him died, the life he had carefully constructed collapsed with her. What followed wasn't a crisis of faith - it was a reckoning.
Because grace showed up uninvited, wearing glitter boots and asking dangerous questions:
What if you were never broken?
What if God wasn't waiting for you to change - but to tell the truth?
Unmasked is a fiercely honest, darkly funny, gloriously messy memoir about what happens when performance stops working. It's a story about loss, survival, queerness, masculinity, neurodivergence, faith, politics, and the exhausting art of trying to remain palatable in a world that rewards self-erasure.
It's about loving a Marine.
Losing people too soon.
Unlearning shame.
Finding chosen family in backyard porch circles, church basements, Lodge halls, therapy offices, and dogs who somehow understood healing better than most humans.
Along the way, Quinn discovers that holiness does not require disappearing. That identity is not a sin. That grief can become resurrection if you survive it honestly enough. And that sometimes the most sacred thing a person can do is stop pretending.
This is not a story about rebellion.
It's a story about becoming whole.
About standing in front of a room - in church, in public life, in love, in grief - and finally saying:
This is who I am.
Without apology.
If you've ever been told you had to choose between being holy and being whole, Unmasked calls absolute bullshit.
This book is your permission slip to stop shrinking.
To stop bargaining for belonging.
To stop apologizing for existing.
Because God doesn't make mistakes.
And baby?
Neither did you.
The mic is on.
The mask is off.
Your turn.
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