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Who are you really? This is the question Janet Mock grapples with in her forthcoming literary debut, Fish Food: A Memoir.

After falling for a man who calls her the woman of his dreams, Janet is forced to face a past she believes she’s left behind. Reaching back a decade, she travels back to her native Honolulu and to the roots of her journey towards self-discovery. Fish Food is a chronicle of the roots of Janet’s conviction to be fully herself, and how she fought family, society, economic and legislative powerlessness and even her own body to transition through genders as a teenager and eventually emerge as a writer, who bravely stepped forward to fight for girls like her everywhere.

Fish Food, which which will be published by Atria Books in Fall 2013, is a coming of age story unlike any other that goes beyond the journey of transition and aims to transcend the body in an effort to answer what it really means to be your most authentic self.