TRANSITION - The Story Of How I Became A Man

[Shana A]

TRANSITION - The Story Of How I Became A Man
by Kilian Melloy
Thursday Jun 16, 2011

http://www.edgeboston.com/entertainment/books//biography/119885/transition_-_the_story_of_how_i_became_a_man

Chaz Bono has a story worth telling, and in "TRANSITION: How I Became A Man," he manages to tell it, though in a fairly rote manner. (Billie Fitzpatrick serves as co-author here as he did with Bono's earlier book, "Family Outing.")

Chaz, of course, was born Chastity Bono, the single child of Sonny Bono and Cher. This background informs her story; we learn about the pressures of stardom that left Chaz's parents too little time to attend to their little girl personally, with the result that Chastity and her younger brother (the child of Cher and Greg Allman) were left in the care of an abusive nanny. (At one point, almost in passing, Chaz hints that the abuse was sexual in nature, but he offers no details about this. What he does share, however, is appalling enough.)