Chasten Buttigieg felt alienated growing up in Traverse City, Michigan. But now, he and Pete Buttigieg want to raise their kids there.
When he first started working on the young adult adaptation of his new book, Chasten had no idea it would land amid today’s pitched public school culture wars, “Don’t Say Gay” bills and public school book bans. “The first thing I always say to young people,” he told me, “is, ‘I’m sorry on behalf of all the adults with all this power and influence who choose to focus on making your life harder rather than easier.
But as he and his publisher made efforts to set up a meeting with students , the district, as Chasten and his publicist saw it, appeared to drag its feet. Chasten and his team even volunteered to do an after-school talk that would have required a permission slip. The school, Chasten said, declined. Instead of going back to his old school, Chasten worked with a few local teachers to invite some students to attend his talk and go out for pizza beforehand. Local community member pitched in to cover the cost of the tickets, and then the owner of Bay Books in nearby Suttons Bay bought 100 copies of Chasten’s book for the students.
“It wasn’t about getting out of South Bend,” Chasten told me of leaving Indiana, “it was about prioritizing safety in a way that we really had never had to think about.” They looked at more secure condos around town, but eventually settled on their place in Traverse City as their primary residence. Its location near Chasten’s in-laws just worked for them.
There were tests. There was, doctors told him, a growth. They introduced him to a slew of medical professionals, including the oncology team. Soon he learned the growth was, thankfully, benign. But for three months after surgery, he could barely carry the twins.
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