

Duron employs a range of resources as she tries to understand her son and how best to parent him, including speaking to her gay brother and his transgendered friend, finding LGBTQ resources on the Internet, and discovering peers when she begins publishing a blog about C.J.


toward gender-neutral toys, navigating ever-changing rules about what is okay for him to wear in public-is humorous and light, even when the issues involved are heavy. The story of the phenomenal growth that this mother exhibits as she tries to do what she thinks is best-steering C.J. In her first book, Duron comes out of the “mommy blog” closet with an optimistic and delightful memoir of her family’s process of understanding, supporting, and celebrating their gender-creative son, C.J., who prefers Barbies to trucks and princesses to pirates.
