Abi Maxwell

Dec 8, 2024 | washingtonblade.com | Abi Maxwell

‘One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman’By Abi Maxwellc.2024, Knopf$28/307 pages“How many times have I told you that…?”How many times have you heard that? Probably so often that, well, you stopped listening. From your mother, when you were very small. From your teachers in school. From your supervisor, significant other, or best friend. As in the new memoir “One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman” by Abi Maxwell, it came from a daughter.

Oct 22, 2024 | people.com | Abi Maxwell

'One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman' by Abi Maxwell. Photo: Kate Criscone; Knopf This past July, my daughter and I flew across the country, from New Hampshire to California, and set about building a new life. My husband met us at the airport. We hadn’t seen him in a few weeks; he’d driven his car across with our dog and cat. Originally, we had thought we’d caravan — one car following the other, a chance for the three of us to see the country.

Oct 22, 2024 | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Lizz Schumer |Abi Maxwell

Author and advocate Abi Maxwell explains her fight against anti-trans bills in her home state, and what finally made her family decide they had to fleeKate Criscone; Knopf 'One Day I'll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman' by Abi MaxwellThis past July, my daughter and I flew across the country, from New Hampshire to California, and set about building a new life. My husband met us at the airport. We hadn’t seen him in a few weeks; he’d driven his car across with our dog and cat.

Sep 17, 2024 | lithub.com | Abi Maxwell

When our daughter was two—and still known as a boy—and I was a handful of years into my position at the library, the children’s room needed a new librarian and I needed more hours. It wasn’t a position anyone would have envisioned for me—I wasn’t animated and sociable, like all the previous children’s librarians, and I didn’t do crafts. But I cared deeply about literacy, and having a child meant I was learning a lot about children’s books.

Aug 28, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Abi Maxwell |Brenda Wineapple |Mariano Sigman |Aaron Robertson

Abi Maxwell. Knopf, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-53584-4 “I’d felt detached from my body as far back as I could remember,” writes novelist Maxwell (The Lake People) in the opening paragraphs of this captivating family memoir. From there, she unspools the story of her trans daughter, Greta, who was born after Maxwell and her husband settled down in Gilford, the conservative New Hampshire lake town where Maxwell grew up. At age six, Greta began asking to wear pink sneakers and dresses.