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| View Larger Image | I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir
by Jennifer Finney Boylan
| | List Price: | $23.95 | | Price: | $16.29 | | You Save: | $7.66 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 118311 | | Studio: | Broadway | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 288 | | Publication Date: | January 15, 2008 | | Publisher: | Broadway |
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Product Description
From the bestselling author of She’s Not There comes another buoyant, unforgettable memoir—I’m Looking Through You is about growing up in a haunted house...and making peace with the ghosts that dwell in our hearts.
For Jennifer Boylan, creaking stairs, fleeting images in the mirror, and the remote whisper of human voices were everyday events in the Pennsylvania house in which she grew up in the 1970s. But these weren’t the only specters beneath the roof of the mansion known as the “Coffin House.” Jenny herself—born James—lived in a haunted body, and both her mysterious, diffident father and her wild, unpredictable sister would soon become ghosts to Jenny as well.
I’m Looking Through You is an engagingly candid investigation of what it means to be “haunted.” Looking back on the spirits who invaded her family home, Boylan launches a full investigation with the help of a group of earnest, if questionable, ghostbusters. Boylan also examines the ways we find connections between the people we once were and the people we become. With wit and eloquence, Boylan shows us how love, forgiveness, and humor help us find peace—with our ghosts, with our loved ones, and with the uncanny boundaries, real and imagined, between men and women. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 12 reviews)
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Take a look at this book 
A fascinating story woven with the backdrop of a transgender young man haunted both by his phsyical identity and the physical haunting of a house in main line Philadelphia. It is a very poignant, at times sad and then humorous book. I deeply admire the struggle of the author and the way in which she wrote this moving story. The call to be real and to "find ourselves" is one in which we all struggle to achieve on varying levels.
July 23, 2008 | |
a delightful find
I didn't know jack (or jill) about Jennifer Finney Boylan when I picked up this book. I was only interested because it was described as a "growing up in a haunted house" memoir, and I can't get enough of the paranormal.
Imagine my surprise when a few pages in I discover that Jenny was formerly Jimmy.
At first I was annoyed at what I perceived as falst advertising. But in no time I found myself captivated by Jenny's unique voice and perspective. She captures perfectly the goofiness of teenagers in the '70s, with all cultural references intact. The section on Jimmy's first job as a bank teller had me laughing out loud because it reminded me so much of my first job.
By the end of the book, I loved both Jimmy and Jenny, and the whole haunted angle was almost a moot point.
I'm looking forward to reading more by this talented writer.
June 23, 2008 | |
Haunted by Life
This book picked up steam after a chapter or two and never ceased to be less than enthralling. Boylan's story of growing up transgendered and in a haunted house is a tale that probably no one else can tell, and she does a remarkable job. Even better than She's Not There, in I'm Looking Through You Boylan recounts a rich childhood and adolescence filled with love, doubt, pain, joy, and how both the living and the dead have an impact on our lives. A surprisingly addictive read, and highly recommended.
May 27, 2008 | |
Nowhere man
"How can you be loved if you can never be known?" asks the author, and there's the core of her second memoir.
Recycling much of the narrative history of She's Not There - not a necessarily bad thing; Jong and Burroughs, to name but two, have successfully rewrote the same book many times over - there is increased detail and drama in Boylan's semi-sequel. Especially delightful are the music references; "Stone Soul Picnic" and "Little Green" punctuate that special era when it seemed history would never end. Boylan writes with a novelist's sense of timing throughout and most of the conversations, seemingly adventitious, ring right as rain. Ghosts, growth, loss and self-actualization all flow with the untidy logic of real life. Only this is a unique life, a destiny stamped with gender drama. To her credit, Boylan has a light touch and a lot of class in bringing the unknowable to light.
Who knows where the time goes.
March 28, 2008 | |
Creative writing at its best
With a fertile imagination and a gift of writing skills Jenny Boylan has created a memorable memoir revealing the life journey which has brought her to such acclaim in the art of storytelling.Real or unreal,we find that we all have ghosts in our own past who are responsible for our own private haunts. A most delightful read.
Lily B. McBeth
Tuckerton,N J
March 06, 2008 | |
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