Book excerpt: "I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition" by Lucy Sante

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After wrestling for decades with a sense of mistaken identity, in 2021, at age 66, the acclaimed writer-editor known as Luc Sante wrote to more than two dozen friends and announced that she was transgender and would be known as Lucy.

"I Heard Her Call My Name" (Penguin) is a brave and timely memoir that describes Lucy Sante's life and the struggle to be true to herself.