India, April 2 -- "Cher, what the f*** are you doing? They are just going to dinner," Cher would ask herself as her parents left her with Maria, a Mexican babysitter. As a child, she had known that she was "overreacting a gargantuan amount" when she rolled on the floor and cried as her parents left. As an adult, she admits it was the result of severe abandonment issues that she developed in her formative years. Known for her iconic outfits, contralto voice and also for being mother to thousands of gay men, Cher is a queer icon whose memoir serves and how!

In the initial chapters, she uses her razor-sharp memory to trace her family's history and also take readers through the many historical events that shaped the 20th century including th...