Home is Not a Mirror

By W.C. Burkhalter

They weren't trying to be pretty. They were trying to be free.

After being beaten in a Mississippi bar, Ariella boards a Greyhound to Los Angeles, chasing something like safety. In West Hollywood, she finds a makeshift sisterhood of trans women-lost, brilliant, radiant, wounded. Led into a canyon house by a man named Marlo, the girls are promised shelter, belonging, and purpose.

But promises have prices.

The girls must decide what kind of story they are living-and if they will keep following a script written by someone else.

Home Is Not a Mirror is a raw and luminous novel of survival, identity, cult psychology, and trans resistance. Gritty yet tender, it is a requiem for the erased-and a love letter to the ones who stayed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F9LF8PBY
• ISBN13: 9798284814581
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"