family relations

Fifty-five-year-old Julius Harris, diagnosed with terminal cancer, vows to use the time he has left to reconcile with the three sons he walked out on twenty years before, but his children, now grown men, are not quite sure they are ready to forgive and forget.

When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video of their five-year-old son Ryland's transition from girl to boy, it instantly went viral and has been seen by more than a million viewers since its posting. Telling their story in full led to this book. After Ryland became deaf at age one and needed cochlear implants, they spent nearly four years successfully teaching her to speak. Then it was their turn to listen to Ryland as she insisted she was a boy. Hillary and Jeff share their experiences as they try to erase the stigma surrounding the word transgender.