Transparent Love, Family, and Living the T With Transgender Teenagers

PRAISE FOR TRANSPARENT ""Transparent" is a remarkable book - captivating, powerful, funny, and wise. Without ever upstaging her subjects, Beam explains how she fell in love with them, and so allows us to do the same. This is literature of the first order." - Andrew Solomon, author of THE NOONDAY DEMON "Putting aside the gob-smacking strength, humanity, and hard-won wisdom in both the writer and her subjects, TRANSPARENT is just an astonishing book and Cris Beam, an extraordinary talent. This is everything that writing should be: gripping, desperate, heart-breaking and joyous." --David Rakoff, author of DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE "An unprecedented window into the lives of transgender teens, "Transparent" is a testament to the resilience of young adults trying to find themselves in a world that would prefer them lost. I couldn't put it down." --Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls "These kids are most usually known "about" rather than known. But Cris Beam knows them. Bless her for so eloquently and respectfully sharing their stories with the rest of us." --Kate Bornstein, author of HELLO, CRUEL WORLD: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws "Cris Beam has written a terrific book, both tender and tough, about brave sexual travelers who violate borders in search of new worlds." -- Richard Rodriguez, author of BROWN "Keenly observed and deeply felt, TRANSPARENT is essential reading -- as illuminating as RANDOM FAMILY, with hard-won personal insight. We need more books like this, and more writers like Cris Beam." --Janice Earlbaum, author of GIRLBOMB: A HALFWAY HOMELESS MEMOIRBeam, Cris is the author of 'Transparent Love, Family, and Living the T With Transgender Teenagers', published 2008 under ISBN 9780156033770 and ISBN 0156033771.