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Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction
Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs. --The New York Times Book Review
A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival. --Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We''re Briefly Gorgeous
A love story with the heart of Austen classics and a reflective journey of becoming that shift our own perceptions of romance, identity, gender, and the fairness of life.Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a sun child from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Coping with the strain of parental neglect and the elusive promise of U.S. citizenship, Talusan found comfort from her devoted grandmother, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or public curiosity. As an immigrant to the United States, Talusan came to be perceived a
