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Luc Sante's new memoir, I Heard Her Call My Name, is a memoir about her transition.
The author of Low Life and Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York , Sante is a "bohemian" who lived in New York in the 1970s and '80s .
I Heard Her Call My Name is a revealing memoir, yet a resolutely private one as well.
It's concerned only with documenting how this life and transition have felt to a single, idiosyncratic human being.
The shame and unworthiness she still feels (despite supportive friends and many years of therapy) serve as reminders of just how hard it can be to shake off bindings laid on during our childhoods.
There has always been much truth in her work, flourishing like those renegade artists in the squalor of 1970s New York . And now there is even more..
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