Emerson Whitney
1) Daddy Boy
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Language
English
Description
In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they'd been with for ten years-a dominatrix they called Daddy. Living in a tent in the backyard of their marital home, Emerson was startled to realize they didn't know what it meant to be an adult. "We often look to our gender roles as a sort of map for aging," they write. "I wanted to know what the process looked like without that: not man-ness, not-woman-ness." Dizzied by this realization, they turned...
2) Heaven
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Language
English
Description
In the first few pages of Heaven, Emerson Whitney writes: "Really, I can't explain myself without making a mess." What follows is that mess-electrifying, gorgeous.
In arresting prose, Whitney writes of moving through homes around the country, of transness, and, at the book's root, of their complex and often difficult relationship with their mother: their first window into understanding womanness and all that's bound up in it. Whitney streaks this...