Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family Audiobook
Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family Audiobook
- Amanda Jette Knox
- Viking Canada
- 2019-07-30
- 8 h 8 min
Summary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An inspirational story of accepting and embracing two trans people in a family–a family who shows what’s feasible when you ‘lead with love.’
All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to take pleasure from a stable lifestyle. She never knew her biological dad, and while her mom and stepfather were loving parents, the situation was sometimes chaotic. At school, she was bullied mercilessly, with age fourteen, she got into a counselling system for alcohol dependency and was about Love Lives Right here: A Story of Thriving inside a Transgender Family successful.
While still a teenager, she met the like of her existence. They were wed at 20, and the to begin three children followed shortly. Jetté Knox finally acquired the balance she craved–or so that it seemed. Their middle child struggled with melancholy and avoided school. The author was unprepared when the kid she knew as her kid came out as transgender at the age of eleven. Stunned, but focusing on how important it was to support her child, Jetté Knox became an ardent advocate for trans privileges.
However the story wasn’t over. For many years, the author got coped with her spouse’s moodiness, but that chronic unhappiness was taking a toll on the marriage. Just a little more than a calendar year after their child arrived, her partner also came out as transgender. Knowing better than most what would lay ahead, Jetté Knox searched for positive examples of marriages surviving changeover. When she found no role models, she determined that her family would become one.
The shift was challenging, but slowly the family members noticed that these were becoming happier and more united. Told with exceptional candour and humour, and full of insight into the challenges encountered by trans people, Like Lives Here is a gorgeous story of changeover, frustration, support, acceptance, and, of course, love.