Cruel Book

what some really neat people think about the book…

Kurt Vonnegut
How lucky we are to have such a clear and intelligent writer who has had profoundly personal experiences with different identities, the subject of this first-rate book.

Rosie O’Donnell
Inspiring and life affirming, Hello, Cruel World is the kind of book that empowers us to fight for ourselves, and for one another.

Carol Queen, Founding Director, Center for Sex & Culture
I realize Kate Bornstein is trying to save teenagers -- the beautiful weirdos on whom the fate of our future rests -- but if her book gets into the wrong hands, she might inadvertently save a whole lot of adults too.

T Cooper, author of Lipshitz Six, Or Two Angry Blondes
Give this book to someone you love, someone you're afraid of losing (even if it's yourself). 'Hello, Cruel World' will do no less than save lives.

Peggy Phelan, Chair in the Arts, Professor of Drama & English,   Stanford University
A sassy and smart how-to book for all those who want to love life, even when it betrays, disappoints, and otherwise acts unworthy of your heart.
Snaggy & Nitrozac, geekculture.com
Good luck with the book Kate! Suicide is such a tragic thing, and hopefully your work will bring more awareness to the issue, and make those considering ending their life see that there are lots of alternatives. It can be such a wonderful life, sometimes you just need someone like Kate to show you how to look at it.

what the publisher would like you to know about the book:
Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.
Here, Kate bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for navigating an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to teenage suicide prevention for marginalized youth who want to stay on the edge, but alive.
Hello, Cruel World features a catalog of 101 Alternatives to Suicide that range from the playful (Moisturize), to the irreverent (Disbelieve the Binary), to the highly controversial (Get Laid. Please). Designed to encourage readers to give themselves permission to unleash their hearts' harmless desires, the book has only one directive: "Don't be mean." It is this guiding principle that brings its reader on a self-validating journey, which forges wholly new paths toward a resounding decision to choose life.
Tenderly intimate and unapologetically edgy, Kate is the radical role model, the affectionate best friend, and the guiding mentor all in one kind and spirited package.

Betty Dodson, author of Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving

I’m absolutely crazy about Hello Cruel World. As a professional long-term breaker of society’s rules, I’m delighted to discover I’ve been in good company all along. Kate’s wisdom, humor and non-judgmental approach to survival is brilliant.

Delirium’s Librarian,Delirium’s Library

Queers and Freaks Untie! It's not often I'm so crazy about a book that I want to run around telling complete strangers to read it (er, except what else is a blog for?) but here goes: Hello, Cruel World is amazing. It's Whedonesque, hopeful, crazy, intense, useful, inspiring, funny, informative, challenging, queer, sexy, illuminating and could form the basis of a very disorganised religion.