Synopses & Reviews
Kim Chernin was a wife and mother, a shapely, comely woman with a terrific smile and demure manner. Then, at thirty-something, she found herself turning into a boy. Not a man but a boy full of mischief and recklessness who acts before he thinks.
For Chernin, it all begun after her child went off to college. She began to realize how uneasy she was being "someone's wife, someone's woman". And she fell in love with Hadamar, a beautiful charismatic woman.
By turns provocative and startling revealing, My Life as a Boy is above all story of a woman trying to figure out what love is, trying to understand what happens between desire and the determination to possess the object of that desire, and discovering what it's like to go after what you want.
Synopsis
By turns provocative and startlingly revealing, MY LIFE AS A BOY is the story of a woman trying to figure out what love is, trying to understand what happens between desire and the determination to possess the object of that desire, and discovering what it's like to go after what you want. "Chernin writes with the grace of a poet and the insight of a psychotherapist, bringing the shape-shifting nature of intimate relationship alive."--San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
About the Author
Kim Chernin is the author of nine books, including The Obsession, The Hungry Self, Reinventing Eve, A Different Kind of Listening, and In My Mother's House. She lives in Berkeley, where she works as a pyschoanalytic consultant.