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--Regina Marler --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly In this rich memoir, Howey details not one brando: songs my mother taught me life, but three. It's a difficult juggling act, but it pays off beautifully, for the story of her father's coming out as a male-to-female transsexual is only part of a larger narrative of growing up female in America. Howey's writing is neither sensationalistic nor condescendingly cheery; this is a loving portrait of a brando: songs my mother taught me girl's complicated relationship to her father's femininity and brando: songs my mother taught me her own. The author, co-editor of Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Parents, nicely juxtaposes her childhood dress-up games and clandestine sexual experimentation (she wanted to be Madonna) with her father's secret penchant for soft scarves and pumps (he dreamed of becoming Annette Funicello).
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