Part transgender rights advocacy, part political career memoir, part love story and tragic death story. The one aspect that irked me a bit was the Biden campaign message taking up the introduction chapter, but to be fair it is nice to have a political figure endorsing the humanity and dignity of transgender people. McBride helps make the transgender experience understandable and relatable to someone like me who has never experienced that struggle of identity or struggle with civil rights legislation. It was great to hear so much about the inner workings of the political fight for rights as well. The love story and the story of her husband's passing were very emotional (I had to skip a couple chapters because I am squeamish about medical details like the tubes and blood being described). The book thoroughly highlights the knife-edge we live on between life and death, and transgender people have to think about extra struggles on top of health and love and work, such as representation, community involvement/acceptance, and simply being able to go to the bathroom when they go on a road trip. Very glad to have heard this perspective, and glad that the author is so clear about how their struggle was actually full of much privilege and that we must be conscious that for so many it can be even harder. The nation needs much more empathy and flexibility on these concepts!

I absolutely loved this book. It takes a lot to make me cry, but this book brought me to tears multiple times. I loved getting to hear about her experience advocating for equality and with her late husband.

Uplifting and inspiring

This book should be required reading in every high school in the country. Sarah’s story is courageous, poignant, tragic, uplifting and inspiring. It’s easy these days to feel discouraged and disheartened, but this book gave me back some of the hope I had before 2016.

Sarah McBride for president! This was a beautiful book. All of the feelings.

Sarah tells her story simply, as simply as a memoir can ever be.
More than a story of living her authentic life, Sarah's narrative gives life to the struggle for legal protection from discrimination and abuse due to a person's gender.
Woven throughout is a love story, and the lessons she learned finding her voice in the world.
I checked, and she is running for public office in 2020.
Good for her- i think she would be an asset.

Second book in a row crying on public transportation.