I Heard Her Call My Name
By Lucy Sante

Aand NEW YORK TIMESand BEST BOOK OF 2024 A joy'and THE WASHINGTON POST Vibrant'and LIT HUB Moving'and THE NEW YORK TIMES Powerful'and NEW YORKERLucy Sante has often felt like an outsider.and Born in Belgium to conservative Catholic working-class parents, she was transplanted to the United States without ever entirely settling here. But a feeling of home finally arrived when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s amidst her fellow bohemians. Through those electric years, some of her friends would die young, from drugs and AIDS, and others would become jarringly famous. Lucy flirted with both fates, on her way to building a glittering career as a writer. But she could never shake that feeling.When she was finally ready, Lucy decided to confront the façade she'd been presenting to everyone, including herself, over these years.and I Heard Her Call My Nameand is the story of that confrontation, of a life with a missing piece that with transition, falls into place. This a memoir of grace and wit that parses the issues of gender identity and far beyond with unbounding humility and hope.'Radical, humble and wise'and HERMIONE HOBY'An astonishing, once-in-a-lifetime achievement'and HUA HSU'Vivid, encompassing and compassionate'and CATHERINE LACEY