Found in transition : a mother's evolution during her child's gender change / Paria Hassouri, MD.
Material type: TextPublisher: Novato, California : New World Library, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: xv, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781608687084
- 1608687082
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 306.8743 H355 | Available | 33111010407621 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
On Thanksgiving morning, Paria Hassouri finds herself furiously praying and negotiating with the universe as she irons a dress her fourteen-year-old, designated male at birth, has secretly purchased and wants to wear to dinner with the extended family. In this wonderfully frank, loving, and practical account of parenting a transgender teen, Paria chronicles what amounts to a dual transition: as her child transitions from male to female, she navigates through anger, denial, and grief to eventually arrive at acceptance. Despite her experience advising other parents in her work as a pediatrician, she was blindsided by her child's gender identity. Paria is also forced to examine how she still carries insecurities from her past of growing up as an Iranian-American immigrant in a predominantly white neighborhood, and how her life experience is causing her to parent with fear instead of love. Paria discovers her capacity to evolve, as well as what it really means to parent and the deepest nature of unconditional love.
This page-turning memoir relates a tender story of loving and parenting a teenager coming out as transgender and transitioning. It explores identity, self-discovery in adolescence and midlife, and difference in a world that values conformity. At its heart, Found in Transition is a universally inspiring portrait of what it means to be a family.
Prologue: Thanksgiving 2017: Iron -- I'm a girl -- It's a boy -- Not my daughter -- Push and pull -- Drowning -- Crossing bridges -- Take the wheel -- Metamorphosis -- Prescribing a new story -- Out and proud -- Back to school -- It's legal.
"In this autobiographical narrative, an Iranian-American pediatrician and mother of three is blindsided when one of her children comes out as transgender. As the author grapples with her child's transition from male to female, she is forced to re-examine her ideas of parenting, gender, and personal identity"-- Provided by publisher.