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Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride

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fieldsandfeels's review

2.0

Okay, so…I think Sarah McBride is a wonderful advocate for trans rights, which is why I wanted to kick off my trans rights readathon with her memoir. However, I found myself disengaged from it in many ways. From the beginning, she is clearly very ensconced in the traditional political machine, which I find both disappointing (though admittedly that’s on me, as I knew that going in) and entirely uninteresting. I was hoping for a little more person in the storytelling, but instead we got a well organized but boring account of her coming out followed quickly by her early career days, which actually appeared to have been smooth and easy, without rancor. While that is a great story worth telling - let’s hear it for trans joy! - the narrative fell flat. Even walking through *SPOILER ALERT* her partner’s cancer diagnosis, becoming a caretaker to him, and ultimately his death, was told with clinical precision and little heart. As a political candidate she has my support, but this memoir is clearly just a cog in the engine fueling her political career.

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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choicepotatoes_yetagain's review

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

3.75

3.75 - enjoyable + would recommend
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i wasn’t expecting my heart to break, but it did

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A really beautiful and vulnerable memoir that’s 1/3 transitioning and coming out, 1/3 politics, and 1/3 touching love story.

While I don’t personally feel Sarah’s optimism and support of our political system, it is refreshing to see someone in the space who truly believes in its potential for good. And why shouldn’t she? She (and countless others along side of her) have fought for some big wins for trans equality.

At the end of the day, Sarah being an openly trans person in politics shows the future generations that it is possible to go after the things you want in life while being your true and authentic self, and I think that’s just beautiful.

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