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OUR DAY WILL COME
George Donner felt that he had arranged the perfect life for himself. Marrying his childhood sweetheart, fathering a bright and attractive son, and taking care of his little family in the suburbs were, he believed, the right things to do. But when he finally discovers that "the right thing isn't always the best thing," his wife is dead, his son, Martin, is middle-aged, and George himself, at seventy-two, is recuperating from his second stroke in Mountain View, a Colorado nursing home.He assumes that his life is over until his new friend Hannah, a sex-hungry widow with a memory problem and an eye for George, unwittingly introduces him to her competition-Jake Blair, a seventy-five-year-old openly gay writer on layover at Mountain View with a broken hip. Jake and George begin an affair, but when Jake finally heals and goes home, George is left behind, facing heartbreak, commitment to Mountain View by his disapproving son, and a troublesome memory of his father that haunts him as he struggles with his own sexuality.Will George ever be reunited with Jake? Our Day Will Come explores family relationships, ageism, and independence as George struggles to choose between living acceptably and living authentically.
226 pages, Paperback
First published January 5, 2004
About the author
Matt Kailey
10 books4 followersMatthew Scott Kailey (March 17, 1955 – May 18, 2014) was a trans male author, educator, and transgender activist.
Kailey was born in 1955 in Omaha, Nebraska to Shirley and George “Rod” Kailey. He earned a BA in Sociology and Psychology at Iowa State University and an MA in Education from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He later moved to Colorado and began a career as a social caseworker.
Kailey began his female-to-male transition at the age of 42, transitioning from a straight woman to a gay trans man. After leaving social work, he became a writer for Out Front Colorado, one of the country's oldest LGBT publications. In 2007 he became its managing editor, making Kailey the highest-ranking trans journalist of an LGBT publication.
Kailey documented his gender transition in his books Just Add Hormones: An Insider’s Guide to the Transsexual Experience (2005) and Teeny Weenies and Other Short Subjects (2012). He wrote a guidebook, My Child is Transgender: 10 Tips for Parents of Adult Trans Children. He wrote an award-winning blog, Tranifesto, spoke at numerous conferences, and offered workplace training on transgender issues. He also taught courses in psychology, human sexuality, and transgender studies at Red Rocks Community College and Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Kailey died in his sleep of heart failure on May 18, 2014.
Kailey was born in 1955 in Omaha, Nebraska to Shirley and George “Rod” Kailey. He earned a BA in Sociology and Psychology at Iowa State University and an MA in Education from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He later moved to Colorado and began a career as a social caseworker.
Kailey began his female-to-male transition at the age of 42, transitioning from a straight woman to a gay trans man. After leaving social work, he became a writer for Out Front Colorado, one of the country's oldest LGBT publications. In 2007 he became its managing editor, making Kailey the highest-ranking trans journalist of an LGBT publication.
Kailey documented his gender transition in his books Just Add Hormones: An Insider’s Guide to the Transsexual Experience (2005) and Teeny Weenies and Other Short Subjects (2012). He wrote a guidebook, My Child is Transgender: 10 Tips for Parents of Adult Trans Children. He wrote an award-winning blog, Tranifesto, spoke at numerous conferences, and offered workplace training on transgender issues. He also taught courses in psychology, human sexuality, and transgender studies at Red Rocks Community College and Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Kailey died in his sleep of heart failure on May 18, 2014.
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May 21, 2021
I read this in 2007. A newer book reminded me how much I loved it. Here's what I posted on Amazon:
This is a lovely, sometimes sad, sometimes joyful, account of a man who has come to the end of his life having denied his true self. Throughout the course of the book, George reflects on a life of always doing the right thing, doing what he had to do, doing what was expected, barely daring to imagine any other kind of life - and doing "penance" whenever those thoughts did slip in. It's heartbreaking. As are the descriptions of how he feels about his now aged body and the mind-numbing tedium of life in a nursing home being treated like a child. You just so want George to get this last chance with Jake!
This is a lovely, sometimes sad, sometimes joyful, account of a man who has come to the end of his life having denied his true self. Throughout the course of the book, George reflects on a life of always doing the right thing, doing what he had to do, doing what was expected, barely daring to imagine any other kind of life - and doing "penance" whenever those thoughts did slip in. It's heartbreaking. As are the descriptions of how he feels about his now aged body and the mind-numbing tedium of life in a nursing home being treated like a child. You just so want George to get this last chance with Jake!
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