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"Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn," Aaron Raz Link remarks.
Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You, who began life
as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. Turning
from female to male and from teaching scientist to theatre performer, Link documents the
extraordinary medical, social, legal, and personal process involved in a complete identity
change. Hilda Raz, a well-known feminist writer and teacher, observes the process as both
an "astonished" parent and as a professor who has studied gender issues. All these
perspectives come into play in this collaborative memoir, which travels between women's
experience and men's lives, explores the art and science of changing sex, maps uncharted
family values, and journeys through a world transformed by surgery, hormones, love, and
... clown school. Combining personal experience and critical analysis, the book is an
unusual — and unusually fascinating — reflection on gender, sex, and the art of
living. — from the publisher
What Becomes You is a radically strange, deeply moving, unique book, a mother and
child story like none you've ever read. There is nothing in our literature remotely like
this story of personal transformation, a non-traditional story of coming of age and
letting go told in a non-traditional way that challenges all of your assumptions about
gender, family, stability, and social harmony. You will love this book, these people, and
their candid, tough-minded bond. — Floyd Skloot, author of In the Shadow of Memory
and A World of Light
What Becomes You is a tranny memoir/rant/documentary that reads like a whirlwind
of James Joyce, William S Burroughs, and Sarah Schulman, delivering a dizzying tour of
gender worlds and netherworlds from a multiplicity of viewpoints. —
Kate Bornstein, author of Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens,
Freaks, and Other Outlaws
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