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Transitions

Élodie Durand’s exceptional graphic novel recounts a mother’s acceptance of her transgender son and their journey back to each other.

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Review of ‘Transitions’

French university researcher Anne Marbot thought she was open-minded, until her 19-year-old child, who was assigned female at birth, announced, “I am a boy.” The news, seemingly out of the blue, hit Anne “like a tidal wave,” sweeping “away the comfort of my tidy little life that I was more or less satisfied with.” Before…

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