DESCRIPTION
Russell has spent decades being exactly who everyone needed him to be — reliable husband, devoted father, steady friend. But in the back of his closet, behind the holiday wrapping paper, sits a shoebox he can't throw away. Inside it: a pale blue blouse, a dark wig, a lipstick that smells like vanilla. And a name. Rosa.
On a birdwatching trip to the Arizona desert, the silence he's kept for thirty years starts to crack. One friend notices. Then another. And when he finally gets home, he has to sit across from his wife and hand her the truth he's been folding smaller and smaller for most of his life.
This is a story about what it costs to stay hidden — and what it might cost even more to finally be seen.