How to Be a Girl - A Mother's Memoir of Raising Her Transgender Daughter by Marlo Mack - Paperback
A poignant narrative of one mom’s journey to support her transgender daughter—showing how any parent can forge a deeper bond with their child by truly listening
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.
About the Author
Marlo Mack (a pen name) produces the award-winning How to Be a Girl podcast. A Peabody Award finalist, it has been featured by the Atlantic Monthly, The Guardian, and Time magazine in their annual lists of top podcasts. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, BBC, Salon, and The Advocate.
Product details
Publisher : The Experiment (October 26, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1615197982
ISBN-13 : 978-1615197989
Item Weight : 10.6 ounces
