Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children is a 1985 novel by American author Felice Picano.

The book is a semi-autobiographical account of the author's life growing up in the 1950s.

[1][2] A "bold, funny and excruciatingly honest" biographic tale of the author's own childhood and coming out experience, that inevitably affects the reader's retrospective view of his own childhood memories.

When it was first published, the novel was perceived as so scandalous in Great Britain that it was burned on arrival directly at the Liverpool docks.

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