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In *I’m Looking Through You*, author Jennifer Finney Boylan recounts her upbringing in a Pennsylvania home known as the ‘Coffin House’ during the 1970s. Growing up surrounded by creaking stairs, fleeting reflections, and family mysteries, Boylan confronts literal and metaphorical ghosts—from a mysterious father to a wild sister—and the haunting of her own gender identity. With wit and candidness, she examines how love, forgiveness, and humor help reconcile past and present selves and the blurred lines between men and women.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography
Authors: Jennifer Finney Boylan
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