San Francisco Public Library

Not your average American girl, a memoir, edited by Christine Beatty

eng

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Not your average American girl

802284399

edited by Christine Beatty

a memoir

"Christine Beatty's memoir chronicles her odyssey from collegiate husband to transsexual prostititute, recovery from addiciton and the acheivement of her most improbable dreams. Set mostly in the purgatory of San Francisco's Tenderloin district, her story guides readers on an intimate journey througg worlds of hippies, strippers, soldiers, urban transsexuals, prostitutes, addicts, jail, skid row and finally recovery. Ascending against all odds in her career, she is also a pioneering rock musician, a controversial journalist and a survivor of the worst pandemic of the 1980s. Told with the unflinching honesty of someone with nothing left to hide, the humor of a survivor who discovers silver linings in the darkest clouds, and the spirit of a rebel who refuses to be broken, Beatty's is a talk of sublime pathos and the triumph of the human spirit. She proves you can't keep a good woman down -- Publisher's description