If you could send a letter back through time to your younger self, what would the letter say? In this moving collection, forty-one famous women write letters to

"I do not merely rise above old wrongs; I deny them their reality. I sever my connections to darker times and circumstances. I take people with a fresh eye and

"No matter what your current achievements or future aspirations, the advice in this book can save you years of hard learning"--Back cover

Coming-of-age is complicated by coming-out in personal essays leavened with humor, generosity, and all the awkward indignities of growing up.

In 1957 in California, having fallen in love with a young man who has come to his house to build a garden, a fourteen-year-old gay boy finds his life and his wo