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Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer by Dylan Mulvaney
4.0
challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced
Because a journey of girlhood isn’t just about afternoon tea, facials and fun. In this book TikTok sensation Dylan Mulvaney lets us in to the reality of her gender journey, from her fairy tuck mother, to her yearning for validation, to “Beergate”, to the constant coming out again and again with strangers (divulge the bulge) to struggling with the pressure of representing a community. If you do follow Dylan on TikTok you may think you know everything but I feel she went above and beyond in spilling the tea. As she says she has had to hold back on TikTok as she felt she owed her fans everything. Being famous and being transgender is a one in a million and she thanks her lucky stars she’s made it, but she knows how quickly it can be taken away.

I know this is a stretch to make it into my read Irish March, but with a surname like Mulvaney, (and a possible Irish father/grandfather) she’s definitely one of our own and with the thread of Catholic guilt she is.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Sphere Publishing for this copy. It came out on March 11th and I definitely recommend.


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