Supergay! A Memoir

Actor and Big Brother star Grande debuts with a campy ode to embracing one’s differences. In pithy essays, Grande recalls his privileged Florida childhood with a doting mother and often-absent father (“By the time I was ten, I had a hundred Disney World trips under my belt. And I’m not even exaggerating”), his difficulty fitting in as a flamboyant kid in the 1980s and ’90s, and his winding journey to accepting his sexuality before coming out to his fraternity brothers in college. Grande also delves into his struggles with drug and alcohol, and recounts how his younger sister, pop star Ariana Grande, helped place him in “a very privileged, bougie rehab experience” that led to eight years of sobriety and counting. The tone throughout is so self-adulatory it can border on boastful, but Grande’s sweet admiration for his husband, Hale Leon (“My relationship with Hale is a joyful, game-based connection”), saves the day, as does his palpable desire to “live out loud and proud in the hope that [I give] permission for others to do the same, even in the reddest corners of the country.” What this fizzy self-portrait lacks in humility it makes up for in vitality. Agent: Anthony Mattero, CAA. (May)