http://www.charlotte.com/440/story/452700.htmlEngaging 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.
