I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st…
Want to Read $ 14.99"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
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2. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
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4. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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5. Wandering Stars
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7. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
By: Lucy Sante
3.70
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more
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"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
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4.39
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10. The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
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4.28
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11. One Way Back: A Memoir
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4.30
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4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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4.16
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4.02
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17. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
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21. The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation
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4.35
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