4"Tuck your chain, it's dangerous in these streets." Bray Manuel must survive the summer before college after his parents force him out of the house for being gay. Southbound is the first novella in the Memoirs of Bray Manuel Trilogy. As imagination and hash realities meet in a series of personal memoirs. Southbound is something author M J Meyel has been waiting his entire adulthood to write. He confesses old situations that have haunted and resided within him as a testimony for young queer men of color. Southbound covers topics such as addiction, toxic masculinity, domestic abuse, sexual consent, brotherhood, relationships and resilience. -an important American story rarely, if ever, told. (First Edition)