Paria Hassouri (Bücher)

Paria Hassouri Bücher

Paria Hassouri schreibt fesselnde persönliche Essays, die sich mit der Komplexität menschlicher Erfahrungen auseinandersetzen und aus ihrem vielfältigen Leben als praktizierende Kinderärztin, Mutter und Aktivistin schöpfen. Ihre Schriften zeichnen sich durch eine offene und aufschlussreiche Stimme aus, die Themen wie Identität, Widerstandsfähigkeit und die Verflechtung verschiedener Lebenswege erforscht. Hassouri nutzt ihre einzigartige Perspektive, um Geschichten zu validieren und zu teilen, die tief im Inneren ankommen und die Anforderungen eines anspruchsvollen Berufs mit den Leidenschaften verbinden, die ihren Geist beflügeln.

Found in Transition

232 Seiten
9 Lesestunden

4,6(268)Abgeben

On Thanksgiving morning, Paria Hassouri finds herself furiously praying and negotiating with the universe as she irons a dress her fourteen-year-old, designated male at birth, has secretly purchased and wants to wear to dinner with the extended family. In this wonderfully frank, loving, and practical account of parenting a transgender teen, Paria chronicles what amounts to a dual transition: as her child transitions from male to female, she navigates through anger, denial, and grief to eventually arrive at acceptance. Despite her experience advising other parents in her work as a pediatrician, she was blindsided by her child's gender identity. Paria is also forced to examine how she still carries insecurities from her past of growing up as an Iranian-American immigrant in a predominantly white neighborhood, and how her life experience is causing her to parent with fear instead of love. Paria discovers her capacity to evolve, as well as what it really means to parent and the deepest nature of unconditional love. This page-turning memoir relates a tender story of loving and parenting a teenager coming out as transgender and transitioning. It explores identity, self-discovery in adolescence and midlife, and difference in a world that values conformity. At its heart, Found in Transition is a universally inspiring portrait of what it means to be a family.