171 pages ; 22 cm
A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
โ Scribed by Dunham, Cyrus Grace
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
From "an extraordinary new voice," a "passionate and clear-eyed and unputdownable" meditation on queerness, family, and desire. (Mary Karr)
For as long as they can remember, Cyrus Grace Dunham felt like a visitor in their own body. Their life was a series of imitations—lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman—until their profound sense of alienation became intolerable.
Moving between Grace and Cyrus, Dunham brings us inside the chrysalis of gender transition, asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and exhilarating process that troubles our most basic assumptions about who we are and how we are constituted. Written with disarming emotional intensity in a voice uniquely theirs, A Year Without a Name is a potent, thrillingly unresolved queer coming of age story.
โฆ Subjects
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures;SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / General;Transgender people;Transgender people--Identity;Transgender people--United States;;Biographies;Biography;Dunham, Cyrus Grace;Transgender people -- United States -- Biography;Transgender people -- Identity;United States
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Prologue: Shunned; Chapter One: The Lonely Hunter; Chapter Two: Waiting; Chapter Three: Stronghold; Chapter Four: The Uprising; Chapter Five: Again; Chapter Six: Drawing the Line; Chapter Seven: Without a Map; Chapter Eight: A River of Light; Chapter Nine: Double Vision; Chapter Ten: Killing Chicken
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