“Abi Maxwell’s One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman is a cluster bomb of a memoir lobbed from the front lines of the transgender rights movement right into the heart of the contemporary culture wars.”
—Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times
“When you hold One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman, you’ve got more than a memoir in your hands. You’ve also got a white-hot story that seethes with anger and rightful resentment, that wails for a hurt child and rattles the bars of injustice… Read One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman and share it. This is a book you’ll tell others about.”
—The Eagle Times
“Stirring and fierce, righteous and right, One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman is powerfully written, elegantly constructed, and unfailingly wise. Abi Maxwell’s memoir is equal parts furious and hopeful, outrageous and familiar, harrowing and heartening, timely and timeless. It is a story that pits a small town and the small minds who dominate it against the powers of mother love, familial support, and an inspiring refusal to give up or give in.”
—Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is
“One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman is an extraordinary story about love, selfhood, and belonging, and what parents will do to protect their child in a place that is unwilling to protect her. The answer, of course, is anything and everything, forever. There are so many families who need the righteous fury, compassion, and hope they’ll find in this book.”
—Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“Abi Maxwell’s searing and tender memoir is the best kind of narrative for right now—deeply engaged in a place not all Americans might know, fiercely engaged in reminding readers that love is love, blood is blood, family is family, and for so many of us women and mothers, the intricate web of loyalty is what truly matters.”
—Susan Straight, author of In the Country of Women
“This book is a compelling and visceral portrayal of a mother’s pain, joy, hope, and heartbreak as she fights for her daughter’s right to safely be herself. As a parent of a transgender child and as an advocate, I am deeply grateful for Abi Maxwell’s vulnerability and honesty in sharing what too many families across the country are facing in these turbulent times. I can only hope readers allow themselves to be transformed by the humanity laid bare in these pages for the sake of generations to come.”
—Jamie Bruesehoff, author of Raising Kids Beyond the Binary
“Maxwell’s stunning candor and brisk prose make her family’s struggles feel heart-wrenchingly immediate. This is required reading.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
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