Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

â€œA defining chronicle of strength and spiritâ€ (Kirkus Reviews), Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the worldâ€”without a road map to guide her. This memoir â€œshould be required reading for your 20sâ€ (Cosmopolitan).

A few months before her twentieth birthday, Janet Mock is adjusting to her days as a first-generation college student at the University of Hawaii and her nights as a dancer at a strip club. Finally content in her body after her teenage transition, she vacillates between flaunting and concealing herself as she navigates dating and disclosure, sex and intimacy, and most important, letting herself be truly seen. Under the neon lights of Club Nu, Janet meets Troy, a yeoman stationed at Pearl Harbor naval base, who becomes her first. The pleasures and perils of their relationship serve as a backdrop for Janetâ€™s progression through all the universal growing painsâ€”falling in and out of love, living away from home, and figuring out what she wants to do with her life.

Fueled by her dreams and an inimitable drive, Janet makes her way through New York City intent on building a career in the highly competitive world of magazine publishingâ€”within the unique context of being trans, a woman, and a person of color. Hers is a timely glimpse about the barriers many faceâ€”and a much-needed guide on how to make a way out of no way.

Long before she became one of the worldâ€™s most respected media figures and lauded leaders for equality and justice, Janet learned how to advocate for herself before becoming an advocate for others. In this â€œhonest and timely appraisal of what it means to be true to yourselfâ€ (Booklist), Surpassing Certainty offers an â€œexquisitely packaged gift of her experiences...that signals something greaterâ€ (Bitch Magazine).
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer Atria Books
Binding Paperback
PartNumber 9781501145803
IsAdultProduct
Height 8.375
Length 5.5
Weight 2.314853751
Width 0.7
ReleaseDate 2018-05-01
NumberOfItems 1

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	9781501145803
IsAdultProduct
Height	8.375
Length	5.5
Weight	2.314853751
Width	0.7
ReleaseDate	2018-05-01
NumberOfItems	1

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

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