Becoming Nicole

这不是一部关于'如何抚养跨性别孩子'的指南，而是一场让普通读者重新审视'正常'这个词的旅程。作者以记者的克制，记录了一个收养的异性双生男孩如何走向自我认知的撕裂：哥哥尽情拥抱'男孩该喜欢'的一切，弟弟却在公主裙与美人鱼里认出了自己。真正刺痛读者的，是书中那些无处安放的细节——跨性别者'清醒的每刻呼吸都是自我否认'，是一家人为保守秘密而筋疲力尽，是'早上起床对乔纳斯都太难了'。它打动人的地方恰恰不在于答案，而是一连串没有标准解的问题：家庭的爱该如何把握适当的距离？校园霸凌背后的机制是什么？当'做自己'成为一种奢侈，幸与不幸的边界又在哪里？适合所有想理解却又不知如何靠近的人阅读。

Amy Ellis Nutt won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for her feature series “The Wreck of the Lady Mary,” about the 2009 sinking of a fishing boat off the New Jersey coast. She is a health and science writer at The Washington Post, the author of Shadows Bright as Glass, and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Teenage Brain. She was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, and an instructor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Washington, D.C.