num_pages: 318
description: When Cris Beam first moved to Los Angeles, she thought she might put in just a few hours volunteering at a school for transgender kids while she got settled. Instead she found herself drawn deeply into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she discovered. In Transparent she intro­duces four of them—Christina, Domineque, Foxxjazell, and Ariel—and shows us their world, a dizzying mix of familiar teenage cliques and crushes with far less familiar challenges like how to morph your body on a few dollars a day. Funny, heartbreaking, defiant, and sometimes defeated, the girls form a singular community. But they struggle valiantly to resolve the gap between the way they feel inside and the way the world sees them—a struggle we can all identify with. Beam’s careful reporting, sensitive writing, and intimate relationship with her characters place Transparent in the ranks of the best narrative nonfiction.
language: English
title: Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
titlecomplete: Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
genres: Psychology, Queer, Biography, Memoir, Transgender, LGBT, Gender, The United States Of America, Queer Lit, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 530
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Transgender
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt