It's about Juliette, her roommate, her girlfriends, Tours, her mother, a cat (her name is Marilyn), femininity, what it means: being a woman, becoming a woman (if you can do it), how and why.
Juliette is twenty years old and lives in Tours, a transsexual, transgender capital of France. Her student life is comparable to that of an average student: she lives in a roommate with a girlfriend, shops with her mother, flirts, works to pay for her studies and rent, parties, and prepares her bachelor's thesis.
Apart from these small notable originalities, inherent in the character and the trans environment in which Juliette is brought to evolve, she is "normal". It is with sincerity and sensitivity that the author tells us about her life, partly fictionalized, and testifies to the chaotic journey of any teenager.
Far from the clichés and predictability of militant discourses, the author draws women who are simply human beings in search of happiness and fighting against their own ills. Juliette Jourdan is a novelist. She loves books, cats, rain and chardonnay. She agrees with Jean Rhys: "All writing is a huge lake. There are large rivers that feed the lake, such as Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. And then there are the little streams, like me. What matters is feeding the lake. I don't count. It's the lake that counts. You have to keep feeding the lake."
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