She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
Published by Penguin Random House Audio
Narrated by Deirdre Finney Boylan and Richard Russo
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The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan's fresh voice, She's Not There is about a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret. Through her clear eyes, She's Not There provides a new window on the confounding process of accepting our true selves.
"Probably no book I've read in recent years has made me so question my basic assumptions about both the centrality and the permeability of gender, and made me recognize myself in a situation I've never known and have never faced . . . The universality of the astonishingly uncommon: that's the trick of She's Not There. And with laughs, too. What a good book." -Anna Quindlen, from the Introduction to the Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.
Editor's Note
Building bridges…
When it was originally published in 2003, “She’s Not There” was the first book written by an openly trans person to make it on The New York Times bestseller list. One of the struggles transgender people face is trying to make what they feel make sense to cisgendered people, and Boylan, in her memoir on the heartache of coming out and being true to herself, makes a beautiful effort at building that bridge to understanding.
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