Not Yet Jennifer: Becoming Jennifer Book One
Language: English
Published by Jennifer M. Bloom, 2025
Series: Book 1 of 5 - Becoming Jennifer
- Softcover
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- Title
- Not Yet Jennifer: Becoming Jennifer Book One
- Author
- Bloom, Jennifer M
- Publisher
- Jennifer M. Bloom
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798232299408
- Series
- Book 1 of 5: Becoming Jennifer
Some summers change you quietly, before you ever have the words.
Thirteen-year-old Jamie Grant is caught in between worlds. It is the summer before high school in Kansas City, Kansas, a season of heat, waiting, and becoming. To everyone else, Jamie is still a boy, following rules, keeping his head down, surviving the expectations placed on him. But inside, she knows her truth. Her real name, Jennifer, lives only in the pages of a new diary, written in careful strokes, hidden from a world that is not yet ready to see her.
This is a coming-of-age summer shaped by longing and loss. Jamie's first love, Jeremy, is gone without warning, leaving behind grief, unanswered questions, and the memory of a kiss she carries like a secret treasure. At home, her father's harsh control and her mother's silence leave no room for gender identity or self-discovery. Jamie learns to survive by shrinking, by performing the role expected of her, even as gender dysphoria tugs at her sense of self.
Yet in the quiet moments, something stirs.
Across long days and humid nights, Jamie claims small, dangerous freedoms. A borrowed scarf. A soft reflection in the mirror. A whispered wish under the stars. New faces appear, potential friends, a counselor whose kindness offers a flicker of hope, but Jennifer remains hidden, waiting for the right moment to exist.
Not Yet Jennifer is an emotional LGBTQ summer story about first love, grief, and the struggles of growing up unseen. It is a transgender story of patience and resilience, of learning who you are before the world lets you say it out loud. Tender, intimate, and deeply human, this novel is for anyone who has ever had to wait to become themselves, believing that someday, soon, their truth will finally be allowed to shine.
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