{"title":"Cris Beam","description":"Cris Beam is the author of Transparent, a Stonewall Honor Book and Lambda Literary Award winner.She has an MFA in writing from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Columbia, New York University, and The New School. I Am J is her debut novel. While living in LA, Cris volunteered at Eagles, a high school for gay and transgender kids. During the 2.5 years Cris taught there, she became deeply involved with a complex but marginalized tribe of transgender teens who had nowhere to go but the streets, one of whom became her foster daughter.","products":[{"product_id":"i-am-j-paperback","title":"I Am J - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful and inspiring story about a transgender teen's struggle to find his own path -- and love his true self. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e J had always felt different. He was certain that eventually everyone would understand who he really was: a boy mistakenly born as a girl. Yet as he grew up, his body began to betray him; eventually J stopped praying to wake up a \"real boy\" and started covering up his body, keeping himself invisible -- from his parents, from his friends, from the world. But after being deserted by the best friend he thought would always be by his side, J decides that he's done hiding. It's time to be who he really is. And this time he is determined not to give up, no matter the cost.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51228930408671,"sku":"9780316053600","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PoeJ5j3uPa9780316053600.webp?v=1787111789"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/cris-beam.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}