One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story

A fiery, heartbreaking, riveting memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over three years, unspooling a story of gender identity, class, trans youth, and a child caught in the riptide of America’…

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