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At the Broken Places: A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces
Author:
Collins, Mary
CoAuthor:
Collins, Donald
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Series:
Queer action/queer ideas
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Class:
306.768
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: HQ77.8
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ISBN-13: 9780807088357
LCCN: 2016041965
Imprint: Beacon Press
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Pub Date: 04/25/2017
Availability: Available
List: $17.00
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Trade Paper
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Physical Description:
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xi, 194 pages ; 22 cm.
H 8.5",
W 5.5",
D 0.6",
0.4625 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Queer action/queer ideas
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Diverse Titles: LGBTQ+ (Adult)
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TIPS Subjects:
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Social Sciences/Sociology
Family Life
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BISAC Subjects: |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Conflict Resolution
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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LC Subjects:
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Collins, Donald,, 1994-
Collins, Mary,, 1961-
Parents of transsexuals, United States
Transgender people, Identity
Transgender youth, Family relationships, United States
Transgender youth, United States, Biography
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| Annotations |
| ONIX annotations | 08/29/2023 |
| In this collaborative memoir, a parent and a transgender son recount wrestling with their differences as Donald Collins undertook medical-treatment options to better align his body with his gender identity.
As a parent, Mary Collins didn't agree with her trans son's decision to physically alter his body, although she supported his right to realize himself as a person. Raw and uncensored, each explains her or his emotional mindset at the time: Mary felt she had lost a daughter; Donald activated his "authentic self." Both battled to assert their rights. A powerful memoir and resource, At the Broken Places offers a road map for families in transition. |
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| Journal Reviews |
| Booklist | 03/01/2017 |
| In this affecting joint memoir, a mother and son recall the often-fraught process of the son's transition from a girl to a boy, a process that nearly destroyed their relationship. Now reconciled, their collaboration on this book is seamless and lucid, always well written and informative as they address four major subjects: pronouns and body parts, the mother's sense of loss versus the son's sense of discovery, the "disclosure game," and their shifting sense of rights as parent and child, all of these addressed individually by each of the collaborators. For the perplexed, a useful recurring feature of the book is a sidebar called "Word Bank," which defines the trans vocabulary--gender, gender dysphoria, transition, top surgery, etc.--common words that in this context acquire uncommon meaning and help people understand and talk knowledgeably and sensitively about a complex situation. The book is an altogether invaluable and accessible addition to the growing body of transgender literature. YA: A good choice for YA transgender literature collections. MC. Cart, Michael. 208p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2017. |
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