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“In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Lou Arrendale, a high-functioning…
“Kira-kira (kee’ ra kee’ ra): glittering, shining, glittering. That’s how Katie Takeshima’s sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but…
“When she changed genders, she changed the world. It was the groundbreaking publication of She’s Not There in 2003 that jump-started the transgender revolution. By turns…
“An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran’s last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely…
“Toccoa, Georgia. Robert Eads is a 52-year-old wise-cracking cowboy who was born female and transitioned into living as a man after bearing two sons. Fifteen years later, he has…
“A spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town. In life, Bill Cosey…
“An updated edition of the personal account of the fifty-year fight for gay and lesbian rights recalls the struggle through the eyes of more than sixty participants.”
“There is conflict in the whanau. The young man, Te Rua, holds a ‘secret for life, the one to die with.’ But he realizes that if he is to acknowledge and claim his daughter the…
“In a memoir about the power of race to share one’s personal identity, the daughter of Jewish father and African-American mother recalls her confusing but ultimately rewarding…
Written in alternating chapters, a mother and daughter describe the accident that nearly killed the daughter and left her paralyzed, and their determination to allow her to live…