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The bold world : a memoir of family and transformation

Summary: "Jodie Patterson is the mother of five children, including her ten-year-old transgender son Penelope, the catalyst for the author's reexamination of identity within her own dynamic household--and the wider world. This inspiring and highly personal debut memoir goes on to examine Jodie's extended families' African American experiences with racism and civil rights, and her own coming of age in New York City in the 1970s and 80s, and later on as a wife, mother, and activist. With a novelist's sense of artful structure and pacing, Jodie turns her lens on a range of subjects--from the women who raised her and provided strength and comfort, all the while going against cultural norms and gender expectations, to her own children, who acted as a vehicle for Jodie's own growth and ultimately her acceptance of her very diverse family. The result is an exquisite study in transformation, identity, courage, and love"--

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780399179013
  • ISBN: 0399179011
  • ISBN: 9780399179020 (ebk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Ballantine Books, [2019]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note: Roots -- The women -- Serious daring -- She -- Santa Claus is a black man -- Resurrection -- As it were -- Faith is karma. Karma is faith -- Penelope -- Tunnel vision -- The room -- 10,000 hours -- Shifting -- What breaks -- I, woman (The South, revisited) -- This body. This boy. This magic -- The highest vibration -- The widest sense of we -- The lab -- Passing -- A boy named Penelope -- The loss and the gain -- This spot.
Subject: Patterson, Jodie 1970-
Patterson, Jodie 1970-
Parents of transgender children United States Biography
African American mothers Biography
Transgender children
African American transgender people
African American families
African American families
African American mothers
African American transgender people
Parents of transgender children
Transgender children
United States
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
African American mothers Biography
African American transgender people
Parents of transgender children United States Biography
Transgender children
African American families
Genre: Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biography.
Nonfiction.

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