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She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders |  | Author: Jennifer Finney Boylan
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0767914295
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780767914291
ASIN: 0767914295
Publication Date: August 10, 2004
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Product Description
The provocative bestseller She’s Not There is the winning, utterly surprising story of a person changing genders. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Jennifer Finney Boylan explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of family. Told in Boylan’s fresh voice, She’s Not There is about a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret. Through her clear eyes, She’s Not There provides a new window on the confounding process of accepting our true selves.
“Probably no book I’ve read in recent years has made me so question my basic assumptions about both the centrality and the permeability of gender, and made me recognize myself in a situation I’ve never known and have never faced . . . The universality of the astonishingly uncommon: that’s the trick of She’s Not There. And with laughs, too. What a good book.” —Anna Quindlen, from the Introduction to the Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.
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 Excellent Reading May 3, 2010
sweetme (Harrisburg, PA)
Read this book in a weekend's time. The book gave me some really good insight for some of my own personal issues in my life. The book is an easy read, I loved some of the writer's personal witty humor in some of the situations. I liked the book very very much.
Oh Yes She Is April 21, 2010
DJY51 (Westchester County, NY USA)
A more apt title for this book would have been "He's Not There", since it is about a man who always felt that he was a female. But then Jim/Jenny was in a band that played the eponymous song and there wasn't a song that conveyed a male not being there. Nevertheless, the memoir was very open and candid.
Boylan struggled with her unnamed medical condition since being a toddler. He prayed that love would free him, and felt that it had when at last he met the love of his life, Grace. But alas, love doesn't conquer all, and Boylan realized the transformation would have to take place. James became Jenny. It was heartening to read of a transsexual person who was treated with so much respect and dignity. While it wasn't easy for many people, including his rock of a wife, and best friend, novelist Richard Russo, most people turned out to support her and to understand the necessity of her change. Even her children seemed to have been completely well adjusted to her transformation.
Boyle struggled with her inability to explain why she felt the way she did, and I hope she knows that people who are involved with transgendered people struggle with their inability to understand those feelings. Ultimately, I think, it isn't understandable or explainable, but that we just have to respect people's right to live their lives to the best of their abilities in ways that make them feel fulfilled. I'm glad she was able to do that in the environment in which she did.
Her obsession with her gender prompted many of her friends to ask her to talk about something else, and she felt a need to keep her sense of humor. Afterall, she is a writer of humorous novels. Out of nowhere, she inserted a letter written to NASA asking to be the first transgendered person to go into space. It was a bad move, and kept me from giving the book five stars. Her humor came out loud and clear in her writing and storytelling.
Read It Several Times March 6, 2010
somegothswanderbymistake
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Books are always good in my mind, if i have to go back and read them again.
The Second book she did lost me, this one is the best (so far)
Her stories are nice, and i find it facinating to see how i compare to others.
Over my research, i find I'm more of a fan of Harry Benjamin than Jen is.
Mostly it is a sad read, and i think of how lucky i am to make a decision
for myself decades earlier than jennifer.
Kudos to her for going that long without just breaking down.
that's mostly what i think about this book, and it is nice to read in advance how my
thoughts and ideas might not be taken seriously as a writer, or even as a person.
Wonderfully Told Story March 9, 2009
Jana McBurney-Lin (Los Gatos, CA United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was a fascinating book--by a great storyteller--about a man's transformation from male to female. The parts I loved best were when s/he did a private study of the different reactions s/he got depending on gender. (For example, as a male in search of new car, he was shown the engine. As a female, she was shown the cupholders and charged a thousand dollars more for the car.) When s/he started taking female hormones, s/he became more sensitive about everything, and at one point said "There were a number of times when I wish I had the male shield (of testosterone) standing between me and the harshness of the world."
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders February 25, 2009
Book Happy (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ordered this book to learn more about transgenderism. Jennifer Finney Boylan wrote from here personal experiences in a clear, yet entertaining manner giving me insight into this growing phenomenon.
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