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Emily St. James

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Emily St. James on Using Differing POVs to Write a Trans Novel

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By Emily St. James
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Before I accepted my own transness, I spent far too many evenings browsing Reddit, YouTube, and Instagram, looking at the timelines of trans people who had leapt out into the great unknown that was medical transition. Across the months, their bodies metamorphosed, and their personal senses of style grew more distinct. So many of them became so, so, so, so, so hot.
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Summary and Reviews of Woodworking by Emily St. James

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By Emily St. James
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Book Summary An unforgettable and heartwarming book-club debut following a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows: one of her students. Erica Skyberg is thirty-five years old, recently divorced―and trans. Not that she's told anyone yet. Mitchell, South Dakota, isn't exactly bursting with other trans women. Instead, she keeps to herself, teaching by day and directing community theater by night.
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WOODWORKING | Kirkus Reviews

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By Emily St. James, Alison Espach, Anne Tyler
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Pristinely characterized, this debut novel is by turns funny and heartrending. A trans teen helps her English teacher through the fraught process of coming out as transgender in small-town Mitchell, South Dakota. Thirty-five-year-old Erica Skyberg has always known she was a woman, despite the fact that she’s still Mr. Skyberg to her high school students and, well, to everyone else. Her ex-wife, Connie, with whom Erica is still in love, is pregnant by her new Trump-supporting farmer boyfriend.
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