NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW A Memoir

Pidgeon Pagonis's skillfully narrated memoir takes listeners on their coming-of-age journey as they struggled to fit in with other girls. Pidgeon's voice is calm and has a slight Latin accent. Along with typical disruptive changes during childhood, such as moving, parents separating, and new schools, there's also bladder surgery because of previous cancer when Pidgeon was too young to remember it. Socialized to be compliant and accommodating, with an eye to attracting boys, Pidgeon attends college, and while sitting in class, concludes that they, in fact, didn't have cancer but androgen insensitivity syndrome and were intersex. Once the secret is revealed, Pagonis finds their voice and passion to protect other intersex people from having their body autonomy and choice taken from them. L.J.C.A. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2023]