I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante with Griffin Hansbury

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“An astonishing, once-in-a-lifetime achievement." —Hua Hsu

Lucy Sante celebrates the launch of her new memoir, which Hua Hsu calls "an astonishing, once-in-a-lifetime achievement." In conversation with writer and psychoanalyst Griffin Hansbury.PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 6:00 pm.Can't attend? <a href="https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/i-heard-her-call-my-name-memoir-transition" title="https://www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/i-heard-her-call-my-name-memoir-transition" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Order your signed copy here</a> (please specify that you would like it signed in the comments box at checkout).

An iconic writer’s lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really was For a long time, Lucy Sante felt unsure of her place. Born in Belgium, the only child of conservative working-class Catholic parents who transplanted their little family to the United States, she felt at home only when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s and found her people among a band of fellow bohemians. Some would die young, to drugs and AIDS, and some would become jarringly famous. Sante flirted with both fates, on her way to building an estimable career as a writer. But she still felt like her life a performance. She was presenting a façade, even to herself. Sante’s memoir braids together two threads of personal narrative: the arc of her life, and her recent step-by-step transition to a place of inner and outer alignment. Sante brings a loving irony to her account of her unsteady first steps; there was much she found she still needed to learn about being a woman after some sixty years cloaked in a man’s identity, in a man’s world. A marvel of grace and empathy, I Heard Her Call My Name parses with great sensitivity many issues that touch our lives deeply, of gender identity and far beyond.

Lucy Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and Nineteen Reservoirs. Her awards include a Whiting Writers Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy Award (for album notes), an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman Center fellowships. She recently retired after twenty-four years teaching at Bard College.

Griffin Hansbury is the author of Vanishing New York and Feral City (writing as Jeremiah Moss), and the novel Some Strange Music Draws Me In. A Pushcart Prize winner and Lambda Literary Award finalist, his writing has appeared in several publications, including n+1, the New York Times, and the New Yorker and Paris Review online. A trailblazer in the field of psychoanalysis, he was the first analyst to practice and publish widely as openly transgender. He lives in Manhattan.

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