Chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades. Goetsch has written not a transition memoir, but rather a full account of a trans life, one both unusually public and closeted. "How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it?" This is a question often asked of trans people, and a question that Goetsch, an award-winning poet and esssayist, addresses with the power and complexity of lived reality--Adapted from front book jacket flap.