I am J

Informationen zum Autor Cris Beam is the author of Transparent , a Stonewall Honor Book and Lambda Literary Award winner. She has an MFA in writing from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Columbia, New York University, and The New School. I Am J is her debut novel. While living in LA, Cris volunteered at Eagles, a high school for gay and transgender kids. During the 2.5 years Cris taught there, she became deeply involved with a complex but marginalized tribe of transgender teens who had nowhere to go but the streets, one of whom became her foster daughter. Klappentext J had always felt different. He was certain that eventually everyone would understand who he really was: a boy mistakenly born as a girl. Beam delivers a powerful and inspiring story of self-discovery as readers share in J's struggle to find his own path and to love his true self.An emotional, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring story of a transgender teen. Zusammenfassung An emotional, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring story of a transgender teen.

Product details

• Authors: Cris Beam, Beam Cris
• Publisher: Little Brown USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.11.2012
• EAN: 9780316053600
• ISBN: 978-0-316-05360-0
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / General, Interest age: from c 12 years, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / LGBTQ+