Monday, July 19, 2010
Transgender Tales
Posted by Rosemary at 5:45 AM
http://www.thereader.ca/2008/07/transgender-tales.htmlMy first exposure to transgender stories was in the Pulitzer Prize book, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin.
Other tales you might consider are:
She's Not There : a life in two genders, by Jennifer Finney Boylan. A wonderfully exuberant memoir about a man named James who becomes a woman called Jenny. What I really liked about this memoir is how honest it is. The relationship between James and his wife, Grace, becomes the loving relationship Grace now has with her "sister" Jenny. James best friend, novelist Richard Russ does not understand the need to transform. He tells James to buck up and be a man! Yet, Russo comes to realize that Jenny is James, just better and happier.
