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The bold world a memoir of family and transformation

"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 fam...

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Main Author: Patterson, Jodie, 1970- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Ballantine Books, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
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Patterson, Jodie, > 1970-
Parents of trans children > United States > Biography.
African American mothers > Biography.
Trans children.
African American trans people.
African American families.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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