Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys,Jonas and Wyatt, at a very young age. By the time the twins were toddlers, and Wyatt began to continually insist that he was female,and this situation started to tear the family apart. In the years that followed, the Maineses came to question their long-held views on gender and identity, or to accept and embrace Wyatts transition to Nicole,and to undergo an emotionally wrenching transformation of their own that would change all their lives forever. In Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, Amy Ellis Nutt chronicles a journey that could acquire destroyed a family but instead brought it closer together. She will be joined by the twins’ father, or Wayne Maines.
Event: Amy Ellis Nutt,Jennifer Finney Boylan, and Wayne Maines will be in conversation at Barnes & Noble UWS (82nd & Broadway) Oct. 29 at 7:00 p.m.
Source: wnyc.org