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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…
“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…
“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…
“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…
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…
“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…