- Published: 14 May 2024
- ISBN: 9781804991466
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $24.99
Pageboy
A Memoir
- Published: 14 May 2024
- ISBN: 9781804991466
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $24.99
The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn't simply a book on what it means to be trans, it's about what it means to be human.
Alok Vaid-Menon
Raw, harrowing and often heartbreaking to read... Page's book arrives, as if on cue, in a moment when the trans community is facing even more danger than when he started writing it just over a year ago.
LA Times
It doesn't feel like the smoothed-over result of cautious editing, "as told to" anyone but Page himself. Such rawness, as a document of his life story, only makes it all the more singular.
Daily Telegraph
Brutally honest ... Powerful.
New York Times Book Review
Eloquent and enthralling... [Pageboy] is an intense, emotional read, delivered in image-drenched prose. ... 'Let me just exist with you,' he writes, 'happier than ever.' Reading those words nearly made me cry. Page's plea is small. It also feels very big.
Washington Post
Pageboy is like listening to a friend... It's impossible to miss the truth in his words: 'I wouldn't be typing this right now if it weren't for you and your care.' ... Now is an excellent time to read this humanizing and well-written memoir.
Associated Press
At its heart [Pageboy] is the story of his transitioning.... He writes, rather beautifully, about gender dysphoria, top surgery and finally finding himself. But the book is so much more than a tale of transition. Pageboy is a modern-day Hollywood Babylon, written by a sensitive soul.
Guardian
Page's compassion-inducing account feels vital ... Heartfelt and courageous in its honesty.
i Newspaper
Pageboy proves that he is a profoundly talented writer... It is a love story of sorts in which the greatest love turns out to be Page's alignment with his truest self.
Elizabeth Day
Vivid… Moving… Juicy
NPR
A story of survival
TIME
An unflinching account of a life pushed to the brink, and what it means to untangle ourselves from the expectations of others – it's a must-read for anyone in the process of finding themselves.
Harper's Bazaar