One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story Children's Latin American Folk Tale Books recalls all that made her

recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary—her brilliant wit

including her overachieving twin and a charming new boy in town with unwavering morals

forced to choose sides over and over

" ⁠— Tara Sanabria Davila

One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother's Story Children's Latin American Folk Tale Books recalls all that made herA fiery, heartbreaking, riveting memoir that follows one New Hampshire family over the course of three years, unspooling a story of gender identity, class, trans youth, and a child caught in the riptide of Americas culture wars Abi Maxwell grew up in rural New Hampshire, one of eight kids in a poor town abutting a wealthier lakeside village. As a young couple, Maxwell and her husband planned not to have kids, but when Maxwell became pregnant, she knew