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A Girlhood: A Letter to My Transgender Daughter Audiobook
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A parent’s love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.
One ordinary day, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on the Hays family’s door to investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of their transgender child. It was this knock, this threat, that began the family’s journey out of the Bible Belt but never far from the hate and fear resting at the nation’s core.
Self-aware and intimate, A Girlhood asks us all to love better, not just for the sake of Hays’s child but for children everywhere enduring injustice and prejudice just as they begin to understand themselves. A Girlhood is a call to action, an ode to community, a plea for empathy, a hope for a better future. A Girlhood is a love letter to a child who has always known exactly who she is—and who is waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.
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“Narrator Erin Bennett confidently delivers this compelling memoir…With deliberate pacing and a clear, assertive voice, Bennett captures the author’s fierce love for her child and fervent advocacy for the transgender community. Her serious tone channels Hays’s urgent plea for all children to be seen and loved for exactly who they are.”
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“Powerfully intimate…Hays trains her powers of observation on the sheer wonder of a child in bloom.”
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“Hays here presents a different view of God—as a being of pure love that would never consider her daughter a mistake but, instead, a gift."
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“Touching, combative, compelling…This memoir begins with the suspense of a thriller and ends with…hope.”
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“[A] clear-eyed, love-filled tale.”
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“A transfixing odyssey of a mother stewarding a preternaturally wise child and an American family circling to protect that child.”
— Diana Goetsch, author of This Body I Wore -
“It’s about ignorance and wisdom; hatred and love; men, women, and children. In the end, A Girlhood is about all of us.”
— Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She’s Not There
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About Carolyn Hays
Carolyn Hays is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, bestselling author whose novels have been published by Hachette, Simon and Schuster, and HarperCollins and have been listed as New York Times Notable Books and Kirkus’s Best Fiction of the Year. She’s also written for National Public Radio and the Washington Post.
About Erin Bennett
Erin Bennett is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a stage actress who played Carlie Roberts in the BBC radio drama Torchwood: Submission. She can be heard on several video games. Regional theater appearances include the Intiman, Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, A Noise Within, Laguna Playhouse, and the Getty Villa. She trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.