From the sand-swept schoolyards of segregated Georgia to the deserts of the Gulf War, from a Marine Corps parade ground to a Miami street at midnight, Home Sweet Home traces one man’s journey to find out who he was always meant to be.

Frank Carl Glover was born Rufus and renamed Frank before he could crawl, the first proof that identity is something we inherit before we understand it. What follows is a memoir of rabbit stew and cotton rows, drill sergeants and state troopers, war zones and living rooms, told by a man who wore many uniforms and learned that courage, in the end, is never loud.