Book of the Day

Laverne Cox on her childhood, 'Walden' and her new memoir 'Transcendent'

I wanted to transcend how people see me because I was assigned male at birth and because I'm black and poor in the South. I want to transcend this body. I want to transcend like time and space. And I finally had a word for what I longed to do and what I felt like I was here to do.