Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer

Chely Wright grew up in rural Kansas determined to become a country singer, while learning to conceal the feelings she had for other girls. Her memoir follows the years of work that carried her from early performances to Nashville, recording contracts and chart success. That public achievement came with a private cost: maintaining an image she feared the country-music world would not accept if she were openly gay. Wright examines the relationships, faith and expectations that shaped those choices, alongside the strain of keeping them separate. The story brings her professional ambitions and personal life into the same frame as she considers what honesty might demand.