Smartass Style:Paperback and survival of trans people

and survival of trans people long before gender became an everyday term

former FBI agent Duane Swisher

After a chance encounter on a particularly chaotic night

recording instances of love

With a wink toward Oscar Wilde's beloved play

Smartass Style:Paperback and survival of trans peopleBy: Emily Sayre Smith Perfect for anyone interested in the behind the scenes of the ballet world, a rousing memoir of a brash young ballerina from a dysfunctional family who achieves her greatest dream only to realizeas she begins to find successthat shes gay. With a priest for a father and a magician for a mother, Emily Sayre Smith was always going to have an interesting lifefor better and for worse. Here, she recounts what it was like coming of age