Melvin S. Marsh is the award-win­ning, Ama­zon best­selling author of Leav­ing Bacon Behind. After grow­ing up in South Flori­da and becom­ing inter­est­ed in Judaism, he set forth on a trip that spanned over 16 years to get to the mik­vah in part due to the bar­ri­ers of being trans­gen­der as well as dis­abled. This is his first book.