The Unfinished Dollhouse: A Memoir of Gender and Identity
The central metaphor of The Unfinished Dollhouse tells the story: on Frankie's fourth birthday, her parents Michelle and Rob purchased a dollhouse kit. Michelle imagined the time she and her daughter would spend constructing the perfect dollhouse, a fantasy of domestic and familial happiness. But Frankie expressed no interest in such typically girlish pursuits because Frankie was transgendered.

In the years to follow, Frankie's parents experienced an education in parenting a child transitioning from female to male, learning how to deal with Frankie and the rest of the world's reaction.
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The Unfinished Dollhouse: A Memoir of Gender and Identity
The central metaphor of The Unfinished Dollhouse tells the story: on Frankie's fourth birthday, her parents Michelle and Rob purchased a dollhouse kit. Michelle imagined the time she and her daughter would spend constructing the perfect dollhouse, a fantasy of domestic and familial happiness. But Frankie expressed no interest in such typically girlish pursuits because Frankie was transgendered.

In the years to follow, Frankie's parents experienced an education in parenting a child transitioning from female to male, learning how to deal with Frankie and the rest of the world's reaction.
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The Unfinished Dollhouse: A Memoir of Gender and Identity

The Unfinished Dollhouse: A Memoir of Gender and Identity

by Michelle Alfano
The Unfinished Dollhouse: A Memoir of Gender and Identity

The Unfinished Dollhouse: A Memoir of Gender and Identity

by Michelle Alfano

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Overview

The central metaphor of The Unfinished Dollhouse tells the story: on Frankie's fourth birthday, her parents Michelle and Rob purchased a dollhouse kit. Michelle imagined the time she and her daughter would spend constructing the perfect dollhouse, a fantasy of domestic and familial happiness. But Frankie expressed no interest in such typically girlish pursuits because Frankie was transgendered.

In the years to follow, Frankie's parents experienced an education in parenting a child transitioning from female to male, learning how to deal with Frankie and the rest of the world's reaction.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781770864986
Publisher: Cormorant Books
Publication date: 01/05/2019
Series: A Memoir of Gender and Identity
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.12(w) x 7.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michelle Alfano is a Toronto writer whose fiction and non-fiction work has been published in Canada and in the United States. Her short story "Opera" was a finalist for the Journey Prize; Made Up of Arias, the novella based on that story, won the 2010 Bressani Award for Short Fiction. She is the former Associate Editor-in-Chief (Administration) of the literary quarterly

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