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title: "Nails Paperback – September 18, 2017"
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# Nails Paperback – September 18, 2017

**Brand:** mp johnson
**Price:** € 19.67
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- **What is this?** Nails Paperback – September 18, 2017 by mp johnson
- **How much does it cost?** € 19.67 with free shipping
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			        		I&apos;m not going to lie. This book is rough. It is not positive. There is no happy ending, not in these pages at least. It took me a long time to accept who I am, to accept that I am a transwoman. Along the way, I tried to convince myself that I was a crossdresser, that all I needed to do was put on women&apos;s clothes once in a while and I would be okay.  Eventually, staying at home and crossdressing started to feel confining, not to mention lonely. I needed more time, more space. I started taking weekend trips to give myself the time and space I needed to be me, away from family and friends who I thought this would hurt, who I thought would hate me if they knew. I always planned these weekends carefully, hoping they would be fun and triumphant, while also hoping they might let me get this nagging feeling that I was a woman out of my system. The reality is that they ended up being sad, desperate and awkward affairs that involved me doing things that were just not me in the hopes of somehow finding the real me, and someone who could see me. Nails is a lightly fictionalized take on one of these weekends. It&apos;s not a rah-rah-rah go trans! book. This book is not about how it gets better. This book is about the messy parts that happen along the way, about the BS that me and many other trans ladies put ourselves through because we didn&apos;t know what to do, because there was no roadmap, because we were convinced that we were wrong and that the world didn&apos;t want us. This one goes out to all my sisters in the closet, and all those who have fucking fought their way out.
						    	
					    	
						
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## Customer Reviews

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    Naked Manicure
  

*by J***H on Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2017*









  
  
    How about, Naked Manicure? Not nude, implying a strip tease, an attempt at titillation, but a completely bare confessional. Nails is a frank examination of the author's search for sexual identity and acceptance, mostly from herself, over the course of a crossdressing vacation in L.A. It's about as fun and entertaining as a battle with self-loathing and societal rejection can be!Nails is a lot of fun, actually and funny. MP Johnson is a veteran of zines and genre fiction and her honest, intimate voice makes this book work as an entertaining story and not just a confessional or plea for a cause.Come in the interest of social justice; stay for the tragic comedy; remember it for the rare humanity.(Also, if you share MP's fingernail fetish, this one's an automatic home run.)
  


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    And it is never as clean or neat or easy as you hope
  

*by K***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2018*









  
  
    This is an introspective look at gender identity, but it is written in a manner that makes it work for any reader. Because at its core, the book is about identity crisis, something everyone goes through. Even if gender isn't the crux of your struggle with identity, you've got some part of yourself you try to keep tucked away, or that you've revealed to the wrong person, or you're trying to find the right person to reveal that part of yourself to.And it is never as clean or neat or easy as you hope.This book is about searching for the self via inner and outer space, searching for validation, feeling desperate for meaning. It is about bartering parts of the self we know have value to others to find the things we need that so many everyday folks already have: acceptance.If you're one of those everyday folks, this book might make you see how much you take acceptance for granted.The transition into the last section at the end seemed a bit abrupt and left me wondering how the protagonist got from point A to point B, but it kept me going.This is captivating and deserves to be a part of a larger story. I closed the book feeling like this was just the beginning. I want more, and when I say the book left me wanting more, I mean that in a good way.
  


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    I haven't known MP Johnson's writing for very long, ...
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2017*









  
  
    I haven't known MP Johnson's writing for very long, but her other work slips neatly into the category of Bizarro and all things absurd. Prime examples of her entertainment and pathos can be seen in her novels Dungeons & Drag Queens and Drag Queen Dino Fighters. In both these hilarious, bizarre, but ultimately compassionate novels Johnson tackles issues of gender identity, and the ultimate search for self-respect.In Nails, Johnson presents a semi-fictional (at least I get this impression knowing a little about Johnson herself) slice of reality,  and search for self, compacted into 77 pages and a few days of vacation time in LA, where our narrator attempts to cram his secret (feminine/masculine) life with as many searching experiences as his courage will allow--all symbolically linked with manicured nails--before he must go home to the false reality he must preform back in Minnesota.All of this is achieved without Bizarro. The protagonist exists in our world, but is forced to negotiate many. What comes through in Johnson's work, is again, the stark poignancy, the darkly comic humor (which her voice commands so well), the heart shots of emotion laid bare, and the rolling turmoil of an individuals struggle with identity.Johnson captures this pain of this unrest, when she writes,  "Not only am I a freak, but I'm a freak with no friends, a freak that nobody cares about. Nobody does care about me, I realize. At least they wouldn't care about me if they knew this me. They care about the me I present, the fake, one hundred percent masculine me. But that's not really me. Nobody knows me. I have no body. I am nobody."I disagree.
  


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