Worthy of the Event

A trans essayist with a checkered past takes on the big questions of human existence Move over Michel de Montaigne, there's a new girl in town An ABA Indie Next Pick • A San Francisco Chronicle Women's History Month Book Pick • An Allstora Queer History 101 Book Club Pick Set against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s, Vivian Blaxell takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history, from Australia to Japan, to Hawai’i to Mexico, to heretofore un