And I got to include a photo of Emily on the back cover without the hat and scarf she’s wearing on the front (because she is in Minnesota, after all). Toward the middle of the novel, Claire begins to enjoy falling in love again with Emily, who she already knows well and is also getting to discover again.įor the new edition I wrote an epilogue set ten years after the original story that updates Emily and Claire’s relationship. But Claire also has a lot to learn and figure out as the person she thought was her boyfriend becomes more visibly her girlfriend. Claire is bisexual and Christian and quickly becomes Emily’s biggest ally in her coming out process. In revising and updating the story for this expanded edition, it became clear that I needed to add more scenes between Emily and her girlfriend Claire.īoth are sixteen and in high school in rural Minnesota. While it centers on Emily coming out as a transgender girl, her relationship with her girlfriend Claire is the bedrock of the novel. Today I’m excited to welcome Rachel Gold, author of Being Emily.Īt its heart, Being Emily is as much a love story as a coming out story.
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