iO Tillett Wright. (2016). Darling Days: A Memoir. Unabridged HarperAudio.

iO Tillett Wright. 2016. Darling Days: A Memoir. HarperAudio.

iO Tillett Wright, Darling Days: A Memoir. HarperAudio, 2016.

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     iO Tillett Wright is an artist, activist, actor, speaker, TV host and writer. iO's work deals with identity, be it through photography and the Self Evident Truths Project/We Are You campaign or on television as the co-host of MTV's Suspect. iO has exhibited artwork in New York and Tokyo, was a featured contributor on Underground Culture to T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and has had photography featured in GQ, Elle, New York Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. iO is a regular speaker at universities, discussing expanding one's circle of normalcy and embracing those that are different than you. A native New Yorker, iO is now based in Los Angeles.

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Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and art. This was a world of self-invented characters, glamorous superstars, and strung-out sufferers, ground zero of drag and performance art. Still, no personality was more vibrant and formidable than iO's mother's. Rhonna, a showgirl and young widow, was a mercurial, erratic glamazon. She was iO's fiercest defender and only authority in a world with few boundaries and even fewer indicators of normal life. At the center of Darling Days is the remarkable relationship between a fiery kid and a domineering ma—a bond defined by freedom and control, excess and sacrifice; by heartbreaking deprivation, agonizing rupture, and, ultimately, forgiveness.

Darling Days is also a provocative examination of culture and identity, of the instincts that shape us and the norms that deform us, and of the courage and resilience it takes to listen closely to your deepest self. When a group of boys refuse to let six-year-old, female-born iO play ball, iO instantly adopts a new persona, becoming a boy named Ricky—a choice iO's parents support and celebrate. It is the start of a profound exploration of gender and identity through the tenderest years, and the beginning of a life invented and reinvented at every step. Alternating between the harrowing and the hilarious, Darling Days is the candid, tough, and stirring memoir of a young person in search of an authentic self as family and home life devolve into chaos.

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     Genderqueer activist and writer Wright (Lose My Number) aims to create the next great New York City memoir, but stumbles along the way. Wright’s tale of growing up in Manhattan in the late 1980s and ’90s, is in broad strokes a tale of love and loss—both referring to her mother Rhonna, a force of nature whose fierce, unconditional love for her child morphs over years to become an abusive, substance-addicted relationship. That chaos bleeds into all theaters (sometimes literally—both Wright and Rhonna are performers) of Wright’s life. The book’s most vital aspect is its exploration of growing up gender-variant, and Wright’s passionate descriptions of her fear of gendered bathrooms and locker rooms,
     self-baffling relationship with sex and sexuality, and attempts to “pass” as a boy from the age of six have never been more timely. The prose is beautiful and aches with emotion. However, Wright may put off her transgender readers with her casual use of transmisogynist slurs. Cisgender readers will derive a great deal of insight into the developing mind of a trans child.

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     At times, this memoir feels disjointed and frenetic, but that is mainly because Wright's life has been disjointed and frenetic. Brought up by a single mother in early 1990s New York, Wright learned to deal with a bohemian lifestyle early on. This is a story of the author's loving but frustrating relationship with a mother who marches to the beat of her own drum; it is also about the harmful effects of gentrification and drug addiction. At one point, the family is forced out of their apartment by a housing management agency, and the ensuing drama demonstrates what it's like to be displaced for the sake of higher rents. In the midst of all this, Wright struggles with gender identity, dressing as a boy called Ricky, and later, grappling with sexuality when a first crush blossoms. Bouncing from home to home, school to school, and later, parent to parent, the author eventually understands the importance of taking charge of one's own life and even more importantly, of being true to oneself. VERDICT Readers interested in studies of gender identity, seeing a different side of New York City, and memoirs about surviving difficult situations will enjoy. [See Prepub Alert, 3/28/16.]--Caitlin Kenney, Niagara Falls P.L, NY

     Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     More than 2.3 million people have viewed artist/activist Wright's TED Talk, "Fifty Shades of Gay," and then there's her artwork, articles, and MTV show, Suspect. Here she revisits an Eighties childhood shaped by the heroin-laced punk/art scene of New York's Lower East Side.

     Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     May 1, 2016
     A gender nonconforming cultural impresario recalls a life marked by drugs, displacement, a mentally ill mother, and rare but cherished pockets of solace.Nothing about Wright's three-decade life has come easy, as this eventful if narratively loose memoir has it, including her own birth--her mother endured more than 35 hours of labor and needed to be ferried through a crowd of homeless men in her scruffy East Village neighborhood. Wright's mother, Rhonna, was a head-turning model and dancer, and Wright followed in her footsteps as a child actress. Stability was endlessly elusive: Wright's parents split early, Rhonna was booted from their public-housing apartment, and she was prone to angry, overprotective rages when it came to her daughter. The term "daughter" is complicated as well. Though she was born a girl, Wright decided to "become a boy" when she was 6 and eventually dispensed with gender distinctions entirely. Externally, this created a host of anxieties regarding classmates and the boys and girls to which the author was attracted. Internally, Wright was a roiling sea, getting kicked out of various schools and slipping into drug-soaked jags of self-loathing. For all that struggle, though, rhetorically, the author puts on a brave face throughout the memoir, writing with a street-wise cool even when she discusses turning her mom in to the child welfare authorities or discovering her father's heroin habit. "The foundation of my personality is the dance of regaining my balance from slamming into rules," writes the author--which is why she's not much for delivering familiar lectures about gender identity or surviving a tough childhood. It's unclear how this engagingly reckless soul found the poise to launch a publishing, acting, and writing career; she just seemed to be doing it by her late teens. If Wright can pull it off, there's hope for just about everybody. An earnest and heartfelt memoir cloaked under a battle-toughened exterior.

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     Artist, activist, and actor Wright recalls the first 22 years of her turbulent life, focusing on her toxic relationship with her single-parent glamazon mother, whose default emotion was rage and whose life was punctuated by psychotic episodes. She also reveals that when she was six, she announced she was now a boy whom she named Ricky. She continued to live as Ricky until she was 14. In the meantime, she and her mother lived a haphazard, bohemian, often impoverished existence in New York until Wright was sent to Germany to live with her father. Once again presenting as a girlthough an androgynous oneshe was sent to a boarding school in England where she discovered her attraction to girls as well as boys. Returning to New York, she started a magazinethough how remains a mysteryand became a drug runner and user. Clearly one of the book's strong points is the author's candor. However, readers will decide for themselves whether that ultimately makes her a sympathetic star in the story of her boundary-testing life.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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