Hung in the Middle

In this engaging memoir, author Alana Nicole Sholar shares her life journey as a transgendered individual growing up in 20th century rural America. Born as Alan, the second of three ‘pure bred’ Kentucky boys, Sholar dreamed of becoming a jockey…and nearly made it. One of Sholar’s earliest childhood memories is of trying on her mother’s clothes and discovering, not only that it felt good…but that it just seemed right. However, in that place (rural central Kentucky) and at that time (the 1960...