A Body Made Home follows a Black girl through her childhood in East Oakland to adulthood in Williamstown. It traces her struggle to access quality education while negotiating a home life shrouded by the trauma of childhood sexual abuse, and having parents who struggle with their mental health, drug addiction, and the effects of incarceration. The second half of this book is dedicated to the adult K. Marshall. The internal drama of this change--Black woman to Baby Boi to Black man--ultimately insists for Black people, transgender people, and all people, faced with realities of unending change, to love themselves more fiercely, and by that love redefine and remake themselves and their homes. This hybrid theory-memoir uses biomytholography in the tradition of Gloria Anzaldua, Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, and James Baldwin, to explore the author's search for, alienation from, and experience of home as a Black queer person in America. The author comes to understand that gender transition is one way to understand the facts of transition in life, taking into account to Octavia Butler's resounding counsel: "All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you.

The only lasting truth is Change. God Is Change.".