Meeting Robyn
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00D9HDMS8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 104 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Does she live the conventional life of her family tradition or pursue her dreams of an acting career?Her little boy, Robert, haunted by urges that are decidedly female, feels trapped in his male body. Forced to conceal his inner torment, Robert endures pain and isolation, as he ultimately becomes Robyn, finding, at last, his /her true identity.. Meeting Robyn is the powerful, true story of a young mother raised in a traditional household, and her struggle to accept her only child’s confusion with his sexual identity.Compounding the problem, Gloria, his mother, has her own conflicts
Ann Bidou said Meeting Robyn. Figuring out who you are is hard enough when you grow up in the mainstream, supported by cultural and family values. But for transgender people like Robert/Robyn, it's a process with no rules, no road map, no role models, and no parental advice. Robert/Robyn's coming of age takes not one, but three, decades. Each decade is lonely, painful, and strangely, beautifully recognizable. People like me, a 58-year-old married female, don't ex. Profoundly Loving & Brutally Honest Profoundly loving and brutally honest in her book "Meeting Robyn", author Gloria Parker relentlessly explores the relationship of mother and child, baring her own heart and soul and those of her only child, Robert/Robyn, in their journey across a tumultuous lifetime. Hysterically funny in one moment, then soft and touching, then wrenchingly painful, Parker masterfully and seamlessly carries the reader through the mind-boggling shifts. Meeting Robyn Joe Godfrey If you think "transgender" is just a choice, read Gloria Parker's illuminating memoir about her own child's tormented transition to whom he (now she) really is. The journey to acceptance of and comfort with Robyn's ultimate transition is not easy for either Robyn or her mother, and Ms. Parker is frank about her own misgivings and lack of understanding. But then again, how can one not have questions and misgivings about this mystery o