A Year Without a Name A Memoir
A Year Without a Name A Memoir by Cyrus Dunham is published by Little Brown in June 2021 and spans 192 pages. This memoir explores the complexities of identity, focusing on the author’s experiences with queerness, family dynamics, and personal desire. Dunham reflects on the challenges of understanding one’s transgender identity amidst societal expectations and familial pressures, presenting a candid narrative that delves into the nuances of self-discovery.
Readers will find a deeply personal account that invites them into the author’s journey of transition, marked by emotional intensity and introspection. The memoir addresses themes relevant to LGBTQ and gender studies, offering insights into the intersections of identity and privilege. Through this exploration, Dunham encourages a broader understanding of what it means to navigate the complexities of selfhood in a world shaped by external perceptions and internal truths.
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A “stunning” (Hanif Abdurraqib), “unputdownable” (Mary Karr) meditation on queerness, family, and desire.
How do you know if you are transgender? How do you know if what you want and feel is real? How do you know whether to believe yourself? Cyrus Dunham’s life always felt like a series of imitations–lovable little girl, daughter, sister, young gay woman. But in a culture of relentless self-branding, and in a family subject to the intrusions and objectifications that attend fame, dissociation can come to feel normal.
A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Dunham’s fearless, searching debut brings us inside the chrysalis of a transition inflected as much by whiteness and proximity to wealth as by gender, asking us to bear witness to an uncertain and exhilarating process that troubles our most basic assumptions about identity. Written with disarming emotional intensity in a voice uniquely his, A Year Without a Name is a potent, thrillingly unresolved meditation on queerness, family, and selfhood.
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