Out There by William Keohane

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How do you make a life in an unliveable present, when the path to change is impossibly slow?
 
Gender transition doesn’t happen in a clinic, nor does it unfold in a straight line. For William Keohane, it is a journey mapped across words, names, and the Irish landscape. As Will navigates the endless waiting for referrals, appointments, hormones, and surgery, he compassionately charts the many people and places that have shaped his life—both with their love and their willingness to change alongside him. At once sparkling and meditative, with prose of undeniable eddying force, Out There is a universal reflection on transformation and becoming, which asks just how much has to change before we’re seen as who we are.
 
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‘Out There uncovers the elemental forces – alienation, longing, dejection, determination, courage, tenderness, self-regard, love, grief – that coincide in the formation of a man. Suffusing Keohane's observations is a gorgeous gentleness, out of which come flashes of insight, both painful and exalting. Essential reading.’ - Gavin McCrea

‘A beautiful and deeply moving book on seeing and being seen – Out There unveils the ways in which we all grow into ourselves, not as a singular act but as a constantly shifting conversation with the self, our friends and family, our body and our language. A touching and honest account of trans life today, with all its heartbreaks and joys.’ - Elizabeth Lovatt