One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Story of Motherhood and Transgender Rights in Rural America, Abi Maxwell
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A powerful memoir of motherhood, identity, and resilience, One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman follows Abi Maxwell’s fight for her transgender daughter’s rights in rural New Hampshire—an intimate portrait of love, courage, and the struggle for acceptance in divided America.
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One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Story of Motherhood and Transgender Rights in Rural America
Paperback – November 4, 2025
by Abi Maxwell (Author)
In this fiery, heartbreaking memoir, acclaimed author Abi Maxwell paints a portrait of family, identity, and resilience in the face of America’s deepening culture wars. Set against the backdrop of rural New Hampshire, One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman follows one family’s three-year journey through love, loss, and the fight for a child’s right to be herself.
Growing up in a small mill town, Maxwell’s life was shaped by both hardship and the wild beauty of the New England landscape. Years later, when her six-year-old—assigned male at birth—begins to assert her true identity as a girl, Maxwell finds herself confronting a community that quickly turns hostile. From school board meetings to statehouse hearings, she battles those who seek to erase her child’s existence, all while revisiting her own past to understand the roots of empathy, courage, and defiance.
Weaving together personal history and social commentary, Maxwell delivers a story that is both intensely intimate and profoundly political—a testament to maternal love and the urgent need for compassion in divided times.
Praise for the Book:
“An extraordinary story about love, selfhood, and belonging.”
—Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful
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