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Being Emily - Rachel Gold
Being Emily
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They say that whoever you are it’s okay, you were born that way. Those words don’t comfort Emily, because she was born Christopher and her insides know that her outsides are all wrong.They say that it gets better, be who are you and it’ll be fine. For Emily, telling her parents who she really is... show more
They say that whoever you are it’s okay, you were born that way. Those words don’t comfort Emily, because she was born Christopher and her insides know that her outsides are all wrong.They say that it gets better, be who are you and it’ll be fine. For Emily, telling her parents who she really is means a therapist who insists Christopher is normal and Emily is sick. Telling her girlfriend means lectures about how God doesn’t make that kind of mistake.Emily desperately wants high school in her small Minnesota town to get better. She wants to be the woman she knows is inside, but it’s not until a substitute therapist and a girl named Natalie come into her life that she believes she has a chance of actually Being Emily.A story for anyone who has ever felt that the inside and outside don’t match and no one else will understand...
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781594932830 (1594932832)
ASIN: 1594932832
Publisher: Bella Books
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
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Emy's Book Blog rated it
4.0
They say that whoever you are it’s okay, you were born that way. Those words don’t comfort Emily, because she was born Christopher and her insides know that her outsides are all wrong.Firstly, this is a weird coincidence because my name is Emily, and if I had been born a boy I would have been called...
Vilja Reads
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4.0 Being Emily
A very typical narrative of coming out and beginning transition, down to the "always knew" and "wants surgery", but well-written and written with compassion, if a little too much centering on the feelings of Emily's cis girlfriend. Let this also work as a warning: For most of the novel, Emily is con...
brokenbiscuits
brokenbiscuits rated it
This book rocked my world! At one point when I was reading it, I started tearing up. (On the commuter train. Embarrassing.) Full review to come. OK, here's the full review I promised. I was ready to like this book before I even opened it, because (as far as I know) it is the first YA novel set in ou...
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