A Year Without A Name : A Memoir

Description: A "stunning" (Hanif Abdurraqib) "unputdownable" (Mary Karr) meditation on queerness family and desire. How do you know if you are transgender? How do you know if what you want and feel is real? How do you know whether to believe yourself? Cyrus Dunham's life always felt like a series of imitations lovable little girl daughter sister young gay woman. But in a culture of relentless self - branding and in a family subject to the intrusions and objectifications that attend fame dissociation can come to feel normal. A Lambda Literary Award finalist Dunham's fearless searching debut brings us inside the chrysalis of a transition inflected as much by whiteness and proximity to wealth as by gender asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and exhilarating process that troubles our most basic assumptions about identity. Written with disarming emotional intensity in a voice uniquely his A Year Without a Name is a potent thrillingly unresolved meditation on queerness family and selfhood. Named a Most Anticipated Book of the season by: Time Nylon Vogue ELLE Buzzfeed Bustle O Magazine Harper's Bazaar
Title: A Year Without A Name : A Memoir
Barcode: 9780316444972
Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/1/2021