What do you do when your fourteen-year-old son asks you to iron the dress he recently purchased and plans to wear? Paria Hassouri chronicles what amounts to a dual transition: as her child transitions from male to female, she navigates through anger, denial, and grief to eventually arrive at acceptance. Her journey forces her to reckon with her own childhood as a brown kid in a white world. Hassouri discovers her capacity to evolve, as well as what it really means to parent and the deepest nature of unconditional love.
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