Title: strangly impersonal
Review: There is something wrong with this account of Finney Boylan's experience of going from not even able to admit his secret to biologically becoming a woman. Maybe because s/he's a Professional Writer s/he can hardly let such a rare life experience go unexamined, unwritten about, s/he has written a book about a deeply personal life experience in the most superficial way possible. It's quite banal, and as a result, boring. The correspondence between Richard Russo and Finney is transcribed, almost as if to show just how clever the emails between Professional Writers can be, and maybe holds the ulterior motive of pulling in fans of the far more successful Russo. This book seems very calculated, as if maybe this is an effort towards a Pulitzer like Russo's and of which Boylan is so transparently evious.
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