Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family

After reading and discussing  Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult, my community book club decided to read a real life story about a transgender girl and what it has meant to her family. I'm not sure how our book club member had heard about Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family.

I guess I wasn't paying attention so I was expecting a memoir. It was a biography so not quite as intimate but still quite satisfactorily. I was especially interested in the different ways the mom and the dad reacted to identical twin to Jonas transition to Nicole and what it meant to Jonas to have his identical twin become Nicole.

If more people would be reading books like this, perhaps there would be more tolerance for people that are misunderstood by so many. I'm glad that I read this biography and look forward to discussing it with my book club next month.
 

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