How to Be a Girl

This beautifully written book is about parental love, pure and simple. And I don't mean just the rhetorical love claimed by all parents when things are going easy, but the unconditional LOVE required when faced with something in your child that makes them-and you-potential pariahs. There is so much to learn here from Marlo and her gorgeous daughter M. -- Christine Burns MBE, author and transgender activist I'm so grateful to Marlo and her daughter for sharing their story. As a dad who is trans, I'm excited to read it with my own child one day - to have this among the diversity of experiences we can explore and reflect on. Despite the obstacles all kinds of trans families face, resources like this make me feel lucky to be trans and to be a parent at this moment in time. -- Freddy McConnell Marlo Mack's How to Be a Girl is an extraordinary mother-daughter story and also a wondrously ordinary one, not just about a mother's unconditional love but also about listening to one another, learning together, following your mama-gut as well as your mama-heart, and leaping into the unknown with a child - your child - as your guide. -- Laurie Frankel , New York Times-bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is and One Two Three How to Be a Girl exemplifies the true meaning of unconditional love ... -- Jazz Jennings A stunning story. . . . Smart, honest, and deeply personal, this illuminating work should be required reading. * Publishers Weekly * Transgender children are in the news. Bobbing in the sea of headlines is a growing number of memoirs written by parents of transgender kids. . . . The latest is among the best-Marlo Mack's How to Be a Girl. . . Mack's prose is accessible and smart, by turns witty and searching. Her storytelling is sprinkled with the kind of helpful explanations one might find in a parenting advice book. . . . [Yet] Mack's touch is light, like a friend making a wholehearted suggestion over coffee. * Women's Review of Books *