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BECOMING NICOLE
The Transformation of an American Family
A family's adopted twin sons are identical, except as toddlers, one clearly identifies as a female, the other male. This could have destroyed a family, but instead united them. BECOMING NICOLE is a beautiful and dynamic family story. Pulitzer-Price-winning author Amy Ellis Nutt gently reveals the transformation of every member of this special family and the reader wants all of them to win – as a family. And they do.
Jonas and Wyatt were the twin sons Kelly and Wayne Maines expected, but from very early on Wyatt was only interested in girls' clothes and toys. By age five, this conflict was tearing Wyatt--and the family--apart. Jonas and Nicole turn 18 this year, and their lives are very different now than they were. Nicole and her family were at the center of groundbreaking lawsuit that expanded rights for transgender children. Nicole also recently made her acting debut on the USA medical drama Royal Pains playing a trans teen.
BECOMING NICOLE is a fascinating and timely story. It also happens to be an extremely well-written narrative by an author who spent years with the Maines family coming to understand their dynamic and the difficulties involved. Nutt’s relationship with them clearly made a huge difference in how she successfully exposes the depth and complexity of the issues at hand both this family and for all of us.
Amy Ellis Nutt won the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing in 2011. She is currently the health and science writer at The Washington Post. She is the author of Shadows Bright as Glass: The Remarkable Story of One Man’s Journey from Brain Trauma to Artistic Triumph (Free Press, 2011), which was based on a series of stories called “The Accidental Artist” for which Nutt was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing in 2009, and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Teenage Brain Explained. She was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard and Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, and an instructor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
BECOMING NICOLE is a fascinating and timely story. It also happens to be an extremely well-written narrative by an author who spent years with the Maines family coming to understand their dynamic and the difficulties involved. Nutt’s relationship with them clearly made a huge difference in how she successfully exposes the depth and complexity of the issues at hand both this family and for all of us.
Amy Ellis Nutt won the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing in 2011. She is currently the health and science writer at The Washington Post. She is the author of Shadows Bright as Glass: The Remarkable Story of One Man’s Journey from Brain Trauma to Artistic Triumph (Free Press, 2011), which was based on a series of stories called “The Accidental Artist” for which Nutt was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing in 2009, and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Teenage Brain Explained. She was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard and Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, and an instructor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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