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A review by kharlan3
How to Be a Girl: A Mother's Memoir of Raising Her Transgender Daughter by Marlo Mack
emotional
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
3.75
How to be a Girl by Marlo Mack [ARC] (memoir, trans). This book is a memoir about the experience of a mother raising a young transgender daughter. I’ve been following the podcast that inspired this book for a long time and was excited for the opportunity to read the book. I was frustrated by the early use of he/him pronouns for the daughter early in the book and glad the book didn’t use a deadname for her. I enjoyed the inclusion of photographs and drawings. I’ll definitely be recommending it to some straight family of young trans kids I know.
Moderate: Transphobia and Outing
Minor: Bullying, Suicide, Police brutality, Grief, and Religious bigotry