Helpful Score: 5
This book was a good read, but not totally about growing up in a haunted house. This was more a book on Jennifer's growing up years as a transgendered person with a few sightings of ghosts in his/her house. I would still recommend this book, but not if you are looking for a book totally about ghosts.
Helpful Score: 2
I'd been wondering how Boylan could fit her trans-sexual background, along with the story of growing up in a haunted house, under a single premise, but it actually works well. Her being "banished" up to the haunted attic as a teen when the family moves in, rather than being encouraged to take the available bedroom on the second floor where her folks and sister slept, gave the book a rather sad start, but she got through that okay, without being traumatized.
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I love the humor in Boylan's work - but it also has a serious side, helping people understand what it means to be transgender. As a bonus, you will feel really great about your own childhood, in comparison to growing up the wrong gendered body.
Readers of this book may appreciate the 4 volume "Jonah Black" series - Diary of a teenage stud - written by the same author under a pseudonym.
And Jennifer Finney Boylan, if you are reading this, can you please put some clips of your piano playing on the web? I am trying to wrap my head around what you wrote.
Readers of this book may appreciate the 4 volume "Jonah Black" series - Diary of a teenage stud - written by the same author under a pseudonym.
And Jennifer Finney Boylan, if you are reading this, can you please put some clips of your piano playing on the web? I am trying to wrap my head around what you wrote.
Jimmy is growing up in a haunted house, but he is the one that is really haunted. Jimmy's sole desire is to be a girl. This is a haunting tale and so well written. You love this character, man or woman, and are rooting for the individual the whole time.
