Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812995430 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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They live next door to you--are shuttling from work, to Cub Scouts, to softball practice…. And so Wayne and Kelly Maines discover that they don’t have two sons at all, but a son and a daughter. This is a particularly hard pill for Republican, Air Force veteran, Wayne, to swallow, and his journey from denial to accepting and championing his daughter, is one of the more powerful and moving side narratives in a book chock full of them. Nicole, her twin brother Jonas, mom Kelly, and dad Wayne, are your typical middle class American family. An Best Book of October 2015: “Why IS it such a big deal to everyone what somebody has in their pants?” Excellent question, posed by an unusually astute transgender girl, the subject of Amy Ellis Nutt’s emotional and illuminating Becoming Nicole. –Erin Kodicek. It’s also a little ironic, since Nicole’s story makes a bit of a deal of it, but in
Amazon Customer said Great Introduction to Transgender Issues and Families. I really enjoyed this book, and it made a day of travel pass very quickly.Two things in this book really struck me. First, I think it’s easy to view those who actively defend LGBTQ rights as crusaders and zealots. The truth is that they are a patchwork of people who – by and large – have been forced to examine their own viewpoints and carefully consider the status quo when it comes to oppo. "Outstanding" according to J F Fitzpatrick. This is a touching, sensitive, and caring story of the journey of a young woman growing up and her remarkable family. While the author reviews the substantial medical research on transgender people, she never lets the technical details get in the way of the story of Nicole, her identical twin brother Jonas, and her supportive parents as they come to terms with Nicole's gender and the discrimination that the. Such a powerful book--I can't recommend it more highly. Best I've read in years. Momproff This book was so engrossing, and I learned so much from the story of this family--not only about trans issues but also about identity, humanity, and (as cliché as it sounds) the power of love. The transformation of every person in this story makes for a narrative that's hard to put down, and I haven't felt so connected to every strand of a single story in a very long time. One of the aspects of this
Amy Ellis Nutt won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her feature series “The Wreck of the Lady Mary,” about the 2009 sinking of a fishing boat off the New Jersey coast. She was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, and an instructor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalis
Ultimately, Becoming Nicole is the story of an extraordinary girl who fought for the right to be herself. Becoming Nicole will resonate with anyone who’s ever raised a child, felt at odds with society’s conventions and norms, or had to embrace life when it plays out unexpectedly. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MEN’S JOURNAL • A STONEWALL HONOR BOOK IN NONFICTION • FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR TRANSGENDER NONFICTIONThe inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family’s extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning science reporter for The Washington Post When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But it wasn’t long before they noticed a marked difference between Jonas and his brother, Wyatt. By the time the twins were toddlers, confusion over Wyatt’s insistence that he was female began to tear the family apart. In telling Nicole’s story and those of her brother and parents luminously, and with great compassion and intelligence, that is exactly what A