"Marcela has always been Marcela, but until she was 31, when she looked in the mirror, that wasn't what she saw. Determined to find herself and become who she really was, she walked a path that was not always easy and happy.
It is with a touch of irreverence, logic and charisma that she tells us her story, invites us to get to know her, to meet her family, some friends who appeared along the way and to discover how difficult it is to escape from social constraints, but rewarding.
Born in the South as a boy from a traditional and very conservative family, being the middle daughter of three sisters, Marcela, in this book, narrates us her doubts, her anxieties, her daily life, presenting us with small pills of good coexistence with trans people. We can follow her maturation in each chapter, from graduation in Physics to admission to a prestigious bank via competitive examination, from marriage to divorce and finally from therapies to gender affirmation.
The author lets us accompany her to Thailand and tells us about her reassignment surgery on the other side of the world. We can feel firsthand how irrelevant being a banker, white and post-graduated is when you are a trans woman, even if you are the general manager of a branch of one of the largest banks in the country, and how strange this is to most, as if that could not be your place.
Marcela tells us about her struggles, her hesitations, her failures and her victories as if she were presenting herself to a future great friend, to a possible confidant, and showing herself in a simple and true way. As she says, when the book is finished, we get to know her as well as she does."
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