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Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her father’s brusqueness, Noelle idolized her nurturing tomboy mother and her conservative grandma who tried to turn her into “a little lady.” At age 14, Noelle’s mom told her the family secret straight out: “Dad likes to wear women’s clothes.”
As Noelle copes with a turbulent adolescence, further confused by the male and female role models she had as a girl, her father begins to metamorphose into the loving parent she had always longed for—only now outfitted in pedal pushers and pink lipstick. Could becoming a woman make her father a completely different person? With edgy humor, courage, and remarkable sensitivity, Noelle Howey challenges all of our beliefs in what constitutes gender and a “normal” family.
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods---My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine
May 2, 2003, Picador
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2003, Picador
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine
Nov 21, 2002, Picador
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Dress codes: of three girlhoods-- my mother's, my father's, and mine
2002, Picador USA
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"My mother's hatchback was parked in Section B, Aisle 12, between a small pile of beer cans and a battered Plymouth that looked as thought it belonged on cement blocks."
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