*** Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an audio version of this.

Roland Chesters recounts his life and the lives of many others in this memoir about being a person who has been diagnosed and is living with HIV/AIDS. The author captures what it looks like when your world is absolutely turned upside down by those three letters, and how we can all do better as a society to learn and educate others on this topic.

The writing of this book felt very conversation-like and I think this added to the casualness of how we should approach HIV/AIDS. Many of the people who spoke about their diagnosis were open about how they had never thought it could have been them with HIV/AIDS and how they believed it was a death sentence. But after receiving more information about managing and living with it, it just became a task to do throughout their day. I think these stories are so important because they educate and give us information to break the stigma.

I enjoyed this book so much, and I think it is an important book for everyone to read. It's very real and there are moments where you will find yourself laughing, crying, and cheering.