At the Broken Places : A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces (Paperback)

from Susan.Macura

Change for most people is a difficult thing, but the changes discussed in this book are particularly stressful for all involved despite the fact that some of these changes are for the better. In this book Mary is very honest about her mixed feelings surrounding her daughter's decision to transiti...

from krasiviye.slova

At the Broken Places is a lovingly crafted testament to the tenacious love between mother and son. More appropriate for Trans 201 than Trans 101, the book explores the effects that transition has on a small family, as mother and son struggle to understand the other's experience. Honesty, sometime...

from SqueakyChu

I read this book because I still feel uncomfortable with the idea of a trans individual, and I wanted to educate myself more about this issue. After reading this book, my hope is that the idea of transgender becomes more mainstream, kind of as being gay is now. I think it took a great deal of cou...

from Bidwell-Glaze

A MUST HAVE in any GLBTQ, school, or counselor's library, At the Broken Places is much more than informative. At the Broken Places; subtitled A Mother and Trans Son Pick Up the Pieces; is a true dialog between Mary Collins, a single mother losing her beloved daughter, and Donald Collins almost lo...

from Marlane

This is a well written, candid, and heartfelt memoir written in alternating voices of mother and transgender son that describes the emotional journey as the one time daughter changes name and body in order to live his life as a male. While the teen can't wait to take hormones, change his name, an...