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Rethinking Normal: A Memoir In Transition
Katie Rain Hill
Simon & Schuster
October 2014
On Sale: September 30, 2014
Featuring: Katie Hill
ISBN: 1481418238 EAN: 9781481418232 Kindle: B00IBHS8CQ Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In her unique, generous, and affecting voice,
nineteen-year-old Katie Hill shares her personal journey of
undergoing gender reassignment. Have you ever worried that you’d never be able to live up to
your parents’ expectations? Have you ever imagined that life
would be better if you were just invisible? Have you ever
thought you would do anything—anything—to make the teasing
stop? Katie Hill had and it nearly tore her apart. Katie never felt comfortable in her own skin. She realized
very young that a serious mistake had been made; she was a
girl who had been born in the body of a boy. Suffocating
under her peers’ bullying and the mounting pressure to be
“normal,” Katie tried to take her life at the age of eight
years old. After several other failed attempts, she finally
understood that “Katie”—the girl trapped within her—was
determined to live. In this first-person account, Katie reflects on her
pain-filled childhood and the events leading up to the
life-changing decision to undergo gender reassignment as a
teenager. She reveals the unique challenges she faced while
unlearning how to be a boy and shares what it was like to
navigate the dating world and experience heartbreak for the
first time in a body that matched her gender identity. Told
in an unwaveringly honest voice, Rethinking Normal is a
coming-of-age story about transcending physical appearances
and redefining the parameters of “normalcy” to embody one’s
true self.
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