Over the course of four decades, High Yella takes the reader on a compelling and very personal journey through racialized trauma experienced by the author as a white person growing up in a black household in rural Northeast and beyond. The narrative deftly jumps back and forth in time to various points in his life. Majors is a master of candor, skillfully weaving together his own multifaceted story of sexual assault, racial prejudice, familial dysfunction, hidden identities, betrayal, and eventual redemption. A authentic American story like this one must be witnessed. A must-read for any intelligent person, it is full of beautiful and often gut-wrenching writing that hums songs of loss with measures upon measures of inspiration and success.

High Yella is an interesting memoir covering many unique perspectives and topics. This memoir follows Majors starting during his childhood as a white presenting child in a Black family, living in poverty in a rural area. Majors' siblings have a variety of struggles from substance use to incarceration. Majors continues to cover his life as he moves into an adulthood as a gay man in an interracial marriage with two adopted daughters. He has a secure career and stable financial situation. However, his childhood and his relationship with his family still influences and impacts who he is as a man. Majors' journey is an interesting one and he has great insight and self-awareness. It is a joy to be able to accompany him on his path.

Heartbreaking and vulnerable, the author shares the hard times he had growing up in a family, a society, and a world where no one seemed to want him.