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Zusatztext “Fascinating and enlightening.” —Cheryl Strayed “Reading strictly for plot! Becoming Nicole is about a transgender girl who triumphed in a landmark discrimination case. . . . But the real movement in this book happens internally! in the back caverns of each family member’s heart and mind. Four ordinary and imperfect human beings had to reckon with an exceptional situation! and in so doing also became! in their own modest ways! exceptional. . . . If you aren’t moved by Becoming Nicole! I’d suggest there’s a lump of dark matter where your heart should be.” —Jennifer Senior! The New York Times “Exceptional . . . ‘Stories move the walls that need to be moved!’ Nicole told her father last year. In telling Nicole’s story and those of her brother and parents luminously! and with great compassion and intelligence! that is exactly what Amy Ellis Nutt has done here.” — The Washington Post “A profoundly moving true story about one remarkable family’s evolution.” — People “ Becoming Nicole is a miracle. It’s the story of a family struggling with—and embracing—a transgender child. But more than that! it’s about accepting one another! and ourselves! in all our messy! contradictory glory. The Maines family is as American as they come. In the journey they take toward authenticity and justice! we see a model for the future of our country! a future in which all of us—mothers and fathers! brothers and sisters—somehow find the courage! and the love! to become our best selves.” —Jennifer Finney Boylan! former co-chair of GLAAD and author of She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders “[ Becoming Nicole ] generously traces the parameters of parental love . . . delving deep into the case of a single family with a transgender child and discovering in its particulars certain universal truths about the ways children arrive in one’s life already themselves.” — The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “A transgender girl’s coming-of-age saga! an exploration of the budding science of gender identity! a civil rights time capsule! a tear-jerking legal drama and! perhaps most of all! an education about what can happen when a child doesn’t turn out as his or her parents expected—and they’re forced to either shut their eyes and hearts or see everything differently.” — Time “Extraordinary . . . a wonderful and inspiring story.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “A downright necessary book—and a remarkable act of generosity by the Maines family—that will surely start hundreds of conversations in living rooms across the country about what ‘transgender’ means. But it’s also a deeply universal book! one that hits the heart of what it means for all of us! no matter how we struggle (or not) to identify! to be ourselves.” — BuzzFeed “Gorgeous . . . a really wonderful story.” —NBC New York Informationen zum Autor Amy Ellis Nutt won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her feature series “The Wreck of the Lady Mary,” about the 2009 sinking of a fishing boat off the New Jersey coast. She is a health and science writer at The Washington Post, the author of Shadows Bright as Glass, and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Teenage Brain . She was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, and an instructor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Washington, D.C. Klappentext NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all. Nicole appears as TV's...
