241 pages
English language
Published Oct. 28, 2018
In this poignant memoir of personal transformation, Jill Soloway takes us on a patriarchy-toppling emotional and professional journey. When Jill's parent came out as transgender, Jill pushed through the male-dominated landscape of Hollywood to create the groundbreaking and award-winning Amazon TV series Transparent. Exploring identity, love, sexuality, and the blurring of boundaries through the dynamics of a complicated and profoundly resonant American family, Transparent gave birth to a new cultural consciousness.
Probably my only gripe is that Soloway is clearly very privileged and doesn't always have self-awareness about it. This is otherwise a pretty good memoir about gender and sexuality while working in Hollywood. A life that has greatly inspired their TV show, of which, I more or less have the exact same opinion.
