How to be a girl : a mother's memoir of raising her transgender daughter / Marlo Mack.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : The Experiment, LLC, [2021]Description: x, 241 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781615197989
- 1615197982
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Biography | MACK, M. M153 | Available | 33111010749006 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl.
When Marlo Mack's three-year-old utters these words, her world splits wide open. Friends and family, experts, and Marlo herself had long downplayed her "son's" requests for pretty dresses and long hair as experimentation--as a phase--but that time is over. When little "M" begs, weeping, to be reborn, Marlo knows she has to start listening to her kid.
How to Be a Girl is Mack's unflinching memoir of M's coming out--to her father, grandparents, classmates, and the world. Fearful of the prejudice that menaces M's future, Mack finds her liberal values surprisingly challenged: Why can't M just be a boy who wears skirts and loves fairies? But M doesn't give up: She's a girl!
As mother and daughter teach one another How to Be a Girl , Mack realizes it's really the world that has a lot to learn--from her sparkly, spectacular M.
Take a deep breath -- Let go -- Tell your story -- Prepare -- Learn -- Find your tribe -- Secure the perimeter -- Believe in love -- Find a role model -- Question everything -- Make a plan -- Fight back -- Let go
"A poignant narrative of one mom's struggle to support her transgender daughter-showing how any parent can forge a deeper bond with their child by truly listening"-- Provided by publisher.