"The author is now a 70-year-old economist. From her childhood, she felt uncomfortable with her male body. She took action as LGBT awareness spread, but she soon developed bipolar disorder and fell into a long period of depression. She overcame his dysphoria and underwent gender reassignment surgery after retirement.
When she was a boy, she said that she "wanted to be a man (to have a man's heart)," even though she was a woman at heart. A glimpse of the pressure from society can be seen in the fact that she wanted to be a man rather than a woman. The book chronicles her journey from nearly a decade of suffering, mostly depressed, to the point where she came to believe in her own way of life."
