My Brother My Sister: Story Of A Transformation Hardcover - Plot & Excerpts
After I was born, she kept trying to have another child, preferably a boy. Or so she said and thought. But did she secretly want another girl she could bend and sculpt, coax like Silly Putty into something with form and substance? After all, she was an artist— a painter— who gave it up when she married my father. The paintings were hidden away, her talent was the madwoman in the attic. We children were her raw material. If a girl would provide more to work with, being both more amenable and more of a challenge, might there have been a struggle in the womb as the fetus, torn between male and female, emerged in a murky afterbirth of gender confusion? After all, as to my own concep- tion, recent scientific evidence suggests that that tomboys are “born that way” due to the mother’s (high) testosterone level during preg- nancy. In Williamsburg, we arrive at the negotiation stage. “It’s your book,” Ellen insists, and tells me I can say what I want to about her (yeah, . 157 . 9780670025527_MyBrotherMyS_TX.indd 157 4/23/13 4:12 PM 22145 My Brother My Sister right!), but she requests the veto power over anything that might hurt Beth or Eleanor.
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