"A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival." —Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"It's a love story, a queer story, an immigrant story, an American story, a coming of age story—a revolutionary story." —Amber Tamblyn, author of Era of Ignition A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a "sun child" from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Coping with the strain of parental neglect and the elusive promise of U.S. citizenship, Talusan found childhood comfort from her devoted grandmother, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or...
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"A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival." —Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"It's a love story, a queer story, an immigrant story, an American story, a coming of age story—a revolutionary story." —Amber Tamblyn, author of Era of Ignition
A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender
Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a "sun child" from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Coping with the strain of parental neglect and the elusive promise of U.S. citizenship, Talusan found childhood comfort from her devoted grandmother, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or...