Since 2018, teacher Chasten Glezman Buttigieg has emerged on the national stage after leaving his classroom to travel cross-country in support of his husband, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, and his historic presidential campaign. In this moving, uplifting memoir, he recounts his journey to finding acceptance as a gay man, from his upbringing in rural Michigan to his coming out to the world. Chasten tackles a multitude of issues facing his peers as a first-generation college student encumbered by student debt and rising health care costs, and the struggle to make it all add up. With unflinching honesty, unflappable courage, and great warmth and humor, Chasten relays his experience of growing up in America and embracing his true self while inspiring others to do the same. Book jacket.