Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
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Dey Street Books, 2021.
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9780062435804
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Alan Cumming., & Alan Cumming|AUTHOR. (2021). Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life . Dey Street Books.

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Alan Cumming and Alan Cumming|AUTHOR. 2021. Baggage: Tales From a Fully Packed Life. Dey Street Books.

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Alan Cumming and Alan Cumming|AUTHOR. Baggage: Tales From a Fully Packed Life Dey Street Books, 2021.

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Alan Cumming, and Alan Cumming|AUTHOR. Baggage: Tales From a Fully Packed Life Dey Street Books, 2021.

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    [synopsis] => There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art.

The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father’s Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity.

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No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritize it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something – an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person – you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending.

Ironically maybe, much of Baggage chronicles my life in Hollywood and how, since I recovered from a nervous breakdown at 28, work has repeatedly whisked me away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world. It is also about marriage(s): starting with the break-up of my first (to a woman) and ending with the ascension to my second (to a man) with many kissed toads in between! But in everything, each failed relationship or encounter with a legend (Liza! X Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!), in every bad decision or moment of sensual joy I have endeavored to show what I have learned and how I’ve become who I am today: a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a lot of baggage.
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