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Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
Harvest Books
January 2008
On Sale: January 14, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0156033771
EAN: 9780156033770
Hardcover
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When Cris Beam moved to Los Angeles, she thought she might
volunteer just a few hours at a school for gay and
transgender kids. Instead, she found herself drawn deeply
into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she
discovered. Transparent introduces four: Christina,
Dominique, Foxxjazell, and Ariel. As they accept Cris into
their world, she shows it to us—a dizzying mix of familiar
teenage cliques and crushes and far less familiar
challenges, such as how to morph your body on a few dollars
a day. Funny, heartbreaking, defiant, and sometimes
defeated, the girls form a singular community. But they
struggle valiantly to resolve the gap between the way they
feel inside and the way the world sees them—and who among
us can’t identify with that? Beam’s astute reporting,
sensitive writing, and passionate engagement with her
characters place this book in the ranks of the very best
narrative nonfiction.
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