Crossing: A Memoir

We have read the stories of those who have crossed lines of race and class and culture. But few have written of crossing completely and entirely the gender line. "Crossing" is the story of Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s and 1960s privilege, and her dramatic and poignant journey to becoming a woman. McCloskey's account of her painstaking efforts to learn to be a woman unearth fundamental questions about gender and identity, and hatreds and anxieties, revealing surprising answers."