{"product_id":"one-day-ill-grow-up-and-be-a-beautiful-woman-isbn-9780593535844","title":"One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fiery, heartbreaking memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over the course of three years, unspooling a riveting story of gender identity, class, trans youth, and a child caught in the riptide of America’s culture wars\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbi Maxwell grew up in rural New Hampshire, one of eight kids in a poor town abutting a wealthier lakeside village. Maxwell moved away, but once she married and became pregnant, she knew she wanted to raise her child near the mountains and lake of her youth. When her six-year-old, who was known to the world as a boy, asked to wear pink sneakers, asked to be a witch for Halloween, asked to wear a girl’s dance costume, Maxwell worried about how their small community would react. But when that child changed her name, grew her hair long, and announced that she is a girl, a firestorm descended upon her family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving together the story of her own youth—marked by long afternoons skiing the mountains, a cottage on the lake, and a proud gay brother, but also by neglect and bullying that pushed her brother to the brink—Abi Maxwell contends with the rural America where she was raised and, years later, where she is now raising her daughter, as lawmakers nationwide push to erase the very existence of trans youth. Intimate and stirring, \u003ci\u003eOne Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading for this moment in our history.“Abi Maxwell’s \u003ci\u003eOne Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is a cluster bomb of a memoir lobbed from the front lines of the transgender rights movement right into the heart of the contemporary culture wars.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alexandra Fuller, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“When you hold \u003ci\u003eOne Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, you’ve got more than a memoir in your hands. You’ve also got a white-hot story that seethes with anger and rightful resentment, that wails for a hurt child and rattles the bars of injustice… Read \u003ci\u003eOne Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and share it. This is a book you’ll tell others about.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Eagle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stirring and fierce, righteous and right, \u003ci\u003eOne Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is powerfully written, elegantly constructed, and unfailingly wise. Abi Maxwell’s memoir is equal parts furious and hopeful, outrageous and familiar, harrowing and heartening, timely and timeless. It is a story that pits a small town and the small minds who dominate it against the powers of mother love, familial support, and an inspiring refusal to give up or give in.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Laurie Frankel, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is How It Always Is\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary story about love, selfhood, and belonging, and what parents will do to protect their child in a place that is unwilling to protect her. The answer, of course, is anything and everything, forever. There are so many families who need the righteous fury, compassion, and hope they'll find in this book.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Maggie Smith, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eYou Could Make This Place Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Abi Maxwell's searing and tender memoir is the best kind of narrative for right now\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003edeeply engaged in a place not all Americans might know, fiercely engaged in reminding readers that love is love, blood is blood, family is family, and for so many of us women and mothers, the intricate web of loyalty is what truly matters.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Susan Straight, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Country of Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a compelling and visceral portrayal of a mother’s pain, joy, hope, and heartbreak as she fights for her daughter’s right to safely be herself. As a parent of a transgender child and as an advocate, I am deeply grateful for Abi Maxwell’s vulnerability and honesty in sharing what too many families across the country are facing in these turbulent times. I can only hope readers allow themselves to be transformed by the humanity laid bare in these pages for the sake of generations to come.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jamie Bruesehoff, author of \u003ci\u003eRaising Kids Beyond the Binary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Maxwell’s stunning candor and brisk prose make her family’s struggles feel heart-wrenchingly immediate. This is required reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003eStarred Review\u003c\/b\u003eABI MAXWELL is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eLake People\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Den\u003c\/i\u003e. After graduating from the writing program at the University of Montana, she spent many years working in public libraries, and she now works as a high school librarian. She is a dedicated advocate for the rights of transgender youth in her state and frequently testifies in front of the legislature on their behalf. ","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304316686565,"sku":"NP9780593535844","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593535844.jpg?v=1767734160","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/one-day-ill-grow-up-and-be-a-beautiful-woman-isbn-9780593535844","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}