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Title: Engaging ghosts of the past
Post by: Shana A on January 19, 2008, 06:50:39 AM
Post by: Shana A on January 19, 2008, 06:50:39 AM
http://www.charlotte.com/440/story/452700.html (http://www.charlotte.com/440/story/452700.html)
Engaging ghosts of the past
Transgender writer spins entertaining tale through a spooky house
SALEM MACKNEE
I'M LOOKING THROUGH YOU: Growing Up Haunted
By Jennifer Finney Boylan Broadway. 288 pages. $23.95
Attention, readers: Don't pick up this book expecting "The Shining." This is more like "The Amityville Horror" meets "Glen or Glenda?"
Jennifer Finney Boylan's best-seller "She's Not There" was praised as a witty account of her transformation from a man to a woman. In "Growing Up Haunted," there are ghost sightings, but they're so often paired with analogies to her transgender longings that I started to suspect it was all one big metaphor, until the chapters about bringing in ghostbusters to "read" the house where Boylan spent her teen years.
Engaging ghosts of the past
Transgender writer spins entertaining tale through a spooky house
SALEM MACKNEE
I'M LOOKING THROUGH YOU: Growing Up Haunted
By Jennifer Finney Boylan Broadway. 288 pages. $23.95
Attention, readers: Don't pick up this book expecting "The Shining." This is more like "The Amityville Horror" meets "Glen or Glenda?"
Jennifer Finney Boylan's best-seller "She's Not There" was praised as a witty account of her transformation from a man to a woman. In "Growing Up Haunted," there are ghost sightings, but they're so often paired with analogies to her transgender longings that I started to suspect it was all one big metaphor, until the chapters about bringing in ghostbusters to "read" the house where Boylan spent her teen years.