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Title: She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Richard Russo ISBN: 076791404X Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting and entertaining!
Comment: Jennifer Finney Boylan's book offers a look into the true story of the life of a transgendered person. In it she recounts her struggles to be male, all the while feeling inherently female in the wrong body. As a mismatched mind and body, the author gives the reader a sense of the confusion that results, that is, until the day James realizes that, he would be happier if he became a woman. From childhood through adulthood, including marriage as a man to a woman and fatherhood, Ms. Boylan takes the reader through the process of hormone therapy and surgery to become Jennifer, all the while gently and lovingly working through the bumps of taking longstanding relationships along for the ride.
Boylan presents her life story with sensitivity, warmth and humor making it a very good read. I recommend this book for its entertainment value and the opportunity it presents to educate the reader about this little known condition.
Rating: 5
Summary: companion piece
Comment: First, this book should be read with Richard Russo's Empire Falls, his brilliant novel of small town life. Russo plays an important role in Boylan's book as best friend and reluctant confidant, and he contributed a beautifully written afterword. For powerful context, try to imagine Jim/Jenny on the streets of Empire Falls, and you get a sense of the courage it took to complete this transition in rural Maine.
Second, only a comic writer of Boylan's skill could take such an incredibly sad story and find so much humor in it. This book isn't so much a story of a transgendered individual as it is a story of the triumph of humor over even the most difficult obstacles. As in Boylan's novels, this book confronts the essential absurdity of human existence, and finds hope in love and loyalty and friendship. The gender bending premise of this book may attract curious readers, but Boylan doesn't sensationalize this subject. She simply tells a good story that both enlightens and entertains.
Rating: 2
Summary: Well written but disappointing
Comment: I really wanted to like this book but ultimately was unable. I've known many transgender people and none have witnessed the world travelling, money-no-issue lifestyle that Ms. Boylan has 'lived'.
Sorry to say it but this reads more like a fictional fantasy than fact.
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Title: Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey ISBN: 031242258X Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 21 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Hidden in Plain Sight by Leslie D. Townsend ISBN: 0595237827 Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Wrapped In Blue: A Journey of Discovery by Donna Rose ISBN: 0972955305 Publisher: Living Legacy Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism-For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals by Mildred L. Brown, Chloe Ann Rounsley, Cloe Ann Rounsley ISBN: 0787902713 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Getting in by James Finney Boylan, Jennifer Finney Boylan ISBN: 0446674176 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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