She's Not There was well-written, human, and touching. Boylan told her story in mostly matter-of-fact tones, and I empathized with her struggle to come to terms with her gender identity. The most intriguing part of the narrative, for me, was how her loved ones coped with her transformation, specifically her wife, Grace, and her best friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo. Both stood by her; both came with her to Wisconsin for her reassignment surgery, and legally, as far as I can tell from Boylan's website, she and Grace are even still married. Talk about quasi-happy endings (happy for Jennifer; I still can't help wondering how Grace really feels).
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Discovering Richard Russo
One hot July day last summer, I was browsing through books at a street sale when I found a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, by Jennifer Finney Boylan. As I have a transgendered (FTM) cousin, I was interested to read about this woman's struggle with gender issues, so for two bucks I bought it.
She's Not There was well-written, human, and touching. Boylan told her story in mostly matter-of-fact tones, and I empathized with her struggle to come to terms with her gender identity. The most intriguing part of the narrative, for me, was how her loved ones coped with her transformation, specifically her wife, Grace, and her best friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo. Both stood by her; both came with her to Wisconsin for her reassignment surgery, and legally, as far as I can tell from Boylan's website, she and Grace are even still married. Talk about quasi-happy endings (happy for Jennifer; I still can't help wondering how Grace really feels).
She's Not There was well-written, human, and touching. Boylan told her story in mostly matter-of-fact tones, and I empathized with her struggle to come to terms with her gender identity. The most intriguing part of the narrative, for me, was how her loved ones coped with her transformation, specifically her wife, Grace, and her best friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo. Both stood by her; both came with her to Wisconsin for her reassignment surgery, and legally, as far as I can tell from Boylan's website, she and Grace are even still married. Talk about quasi-happy endings (happy for Jennifer; I still can't help wondering how Grace really feels).
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