A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein

• All Critics: 16
• Positive: 16
• Negative: 0

• Kirkus Reviews | 15 Mar 2012

  This cri de coeur, which appears in a letter to her estranged daughter and grandchildren, suggests that Bornstein has made real sacrifices to follow her own advice, and can therefore dispense it with integrity.

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• Lambda Literary | 13 May 2012

  Ultimately Bornstein has written us a profoundly brave book that cracked me open, leaving me quivering and grateful for the stories I hadn’t known I’d needed to hear.

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• Stuff Queer People Need to Know | 1 May 2012

  It reminds readers that life is an incredible journey...And it’s a journey worth seeing through.

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• Chron.com | 16 Jul 2012

  Emerging from all this is a portrait of a deeply thoughtful, generous and loving person who has the courage and expansiveness...to love those who hurt you, to see beyond the limits and damage, and to make peace with things no matter how difficult.

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• Bitch Media | 17 May 2012

  Her self-criticism humanizes the trans icon who has helped so many teen queens, baby butches, and seasoned gender warriors through difficult times.

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• Feministing | 14 May 2012

  The book can be emotionally exhausting, but it’s disarmingly funny and a pleasure to read.

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• Amy Reads | 16 Jul 2012

  Highly recommended to all who are interested in religion, in family, in gender, in sexuality, or just in life itself. Bornstein truly has much to teach us all.

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• Bending the Bookshelf | 30 Apr 2012

  This an amazing, intense, heartfelt read that's goes far beyond questions of gender and sexuality to examine, really, what it means to be human.

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• Jennifer Caitlin | 2 Jun 2012

  Reading A Queer and Pleasant Danger was a pleasure for me...but more important I learned lessons about compassion, love, truth, service, and humour.

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• Publishers Weekly | 26 Mar 2012

  Bornstein can be a challenging and confusing narrator at times, but is sympathetic in her universal struggle to be comfortable in her own skin and her attempt to come to peace with the paradox that is her life.

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• Pretty Queer | 28 Apr 2012

  This memoir was written largely as a way for Kate to reach out to her daughter...In allowing the public to read it, though, she continues to allow us, her queer family, to get to know her better...

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• Queer Fat Femme | 30 May 2012

  In her memoir she describes herself as a puppy dog and I think that is absolutely correct; she brings that level of joy and excitement to interpersonal interactions and onstage.

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• EDGE Boston | 17 May 2012

  She begins and ends her memoir with gentle pathos; she’s a creature of self-discovery and she attempted to find herself almost everywhere.

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• Pages of Julia's Blog | 14 May 2012

  A Queer and Pleasant Danger is not for the faint-hearted, for reasons that become fairly evident (see: sadomasochism), but is ultimately uplifting, hopeful, even joyous–and always droll.

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• Shelly's LGBT Book Review Blog | 12 May 2012

  I had to read every single, blessed word. It was so engrossing, so interesting that I had to absorb all of it and I just couldn’t put it down.

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• Enfolding.org | 18 Jun 2012

  I highly recommend this book as a testament to personal bravery and the desire to explore identity.

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