Surpassing Certainty

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
AuthorJanet Mock
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAtria
Pages256
ISBN978-1-5011-4579-7

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me is a 2017 memoir by Janet Mock.[1] Following on her 2014 memoir, Redefining Realness, which described Mock's childhood and adolescence, Surpassing Certainty deals with her early adulthood. It received favorable reviews and was a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction.

Publication

Published June 13, 2017, by the Atria imprint of Simon & Schuster, Surpassing Certainty is Mock's second memoir, following her 2014 New York Times bestseller Redefining Realness.[2] The book's title is an allusion to Audre Lorde, who wrote, "And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking."[3]

Content

Following on the discussion of her childhood and adolescence in Redefining Realness, in Surpassing Certainty. The story begins sometime before she turns 20 and continues throughout her twenties. Mock describes herself as being at the age where she had a lot of "obsolete rules" to break.[4][better source needed]

Reception

Surpassing Certainty was a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction.[5]

Writing in The New York Times, Jennifer Finney Boylan described Surpassing Certainty as "position[ing] its story within a larger history of a struggle for human rights. But Mock’s book is also a work of the heart, much of it focusing on the dissolution of her first marriage, and her journey from a Honolulu strip club to an editor at People magazine."[6] Cosmopolitan said the book "should be required reading for your 20s."[7] Elle named to a list of three "must-read" books for June 2017.[8]

References

  1. ^ "SURPASSING CERTAINTY by Janet Mock | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. April 18, 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  2. ^ Valentine, Claire (12 June 2017). "Janet Mock On Telling Her Trans Story". Paper Magazine. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  3. ^ Friedlander, Emilie (June 8, 2017). "Janet Mock Knows Trans Activism Is Not Her Only Legacy". Vice. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  4. ^ Website, Amazon (March 17, 2017). International Kindle Paperwhite. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1501145797.
  5. ^ Boureau, Ella (2018-03-06). "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on March 19, 2020. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  6. ^ Boylan, Jennifer Finney (13 June 2017). "The Modern Trans Memoir Comes of Age". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  7. ^ Smothers, Hannah (13 June 2017). "Janet Mock's New Memoir Should Be Required Reading For Your 20s". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  8. ^ Shea, Lisa (4 June 2017). "3 Must-Read Titles For Your June Book Club". Elle. Retrieved 13 June 2017.

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