| Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers Contributor(s): Beam, Cris (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156033771 ISBN-13: 9780156033770 Publisher: HarperOne OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2008 Annotation: PRAISE FOR TRANSPARENT ""Transparent" is a remarkable book - captivating, powerful, funny, and wise. Without ever upstaging her subjects, Beam explains how she fell in love with them, and so allows us to do the same. This is literature of the first order." - Andrew Solomon, author of THE NOONDAY DEMON "Putting aside the gob-smacking strength, humanity, and hard-won wisdom in both the writer and her subjects, TRANSPARENT is just an astonishing book and Cris Beam, an extraordinary talent. This is everything that writing should be: gripping, desperate, heart-breaking and joyous." --David Rakoff, author of DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE "An unprecedented window into the lives of transgender teens, "Transparent" is a testament to the resilience of young adults trying to find themselves in a world that would prefer them lost. I couldn't put it down." --Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls "These kids are most usually known "about" rather than known. But Cris Beam knows them. Bless her for so eloquently and respectfully sharing their stories with the rest of us." --Kate Bornstein, author of HELLO, CRUEL WORLD: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws "Cris Beam has written a terrific book, both tender and tough, about brave sexual travelers who violate borders in search of new worlds." -- Richard Rodriguez, author of BROWN "Keenly observed and deeply felt, TRANSPARENT is essential reading -- as illuminating as RANDOM FAMILY, with hard-won personal insight. We need more books like this, and more writers like Cris Beam." --Janice Earlbaum, author of GIRLBOMB: A HALFWAY HOMELESS MEMOIR |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Teenagers |
| Dewey: 306.768 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.85 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Southern California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beam, Cris: - Cris Beam is the author of several award-winning books, including To The End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, and Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers. Her journalism has been featured in several national magazines and on public radio. Beam teaches creative writing at Columbia, NYU, and Bayview Women's Correctional Facility and lives in New York City. |