MAP is a coming-of-age memoir about a time when it was easier to admit that you were in love with another girl than that you'd met someone on the internet.

"Stein's work stands apart for its sense of immediacy, honest emotion, and genuine exploration of queer identity." — The BookLife Prize

**Lambda Literary Award Finalist**

Publication date: May 17, 2022, 2nd edition*
ISBN: 979-8-9854265-3-3 (Trade Paperback)
Distribution: Ingram
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*1st edition (paperback + hardcover) published October 2009

As a late-blooming, sexually-confused college senior, Audrey Beth Stein was looking for love, but she never expected it to arrive via email, from someone she first knew only as catrina@juno.com...

It was 1996. A time when the Indigo Girls had just performed their first explicitly gay songs, Ellen DeGeneres was preparing to come out on national television, and Tinder and OkCupid did not yet exist. A time when being queer was just a little bit easier than admitting you'd met someone through the internet.

Offering layers of introspection and insight reminiscent of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep and Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things, this coming-of-age memoir combines the page-turning exuberance of falling in love for the first time, the disorienting clarity of loss, and the triumph of letting go of the training wheels.

2022 marks 25 years since the first time I kissed a girl. To mark that occasion, as well as 18 years of same-sex marriage being legal in Massachusetts, on May 17th 2022 I released a new edition of my memoir MAP, which had been out of print. 

This second edition of MAP includes revised text here and there that reflects additional wisdom; a note from my current self at the end of the book; and a fancy new cover. Although there aren't a lot of changes from the original, they are meaningful ones, and all-in-all it's a better book. 

It will not be available forever. I learned from the original publication that it is a very different experience walking around in the world with a memoir available for sale, and I have very much appreciated these recent years of building new friendships without that in the mix. So, even though 2E, like the original, is print-on-demand, it will at some point go out of print again. If you want to read MAP, this is the time to get your hands on it. And if you do, and we're friends or colleagues, I'd appreciate knowing that you got a copy—and when you read it. It helps to keep the relationship balanced.