alaiyo0685 's review for:

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

4.0

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There is a patch of dialogue between Boylan and friend Richard Russo in which Russo says that Boylan's novels often find that place between making you laugh and making you want to cry. I think Jenny achieves the same with her memoir. It's a touching, albeit very very privileged, look at what it's like to grow up feeling that you're living in the wrong gender, as well as how you try to build a life first avoiding and then correcting that fact.