1 New York Times Bestseller ""Eloquent and enthralling.."" -Washington Post ""The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course."" -Jamie Lee Curtis ""Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant.. This isn't simply a book on what it means to be trans, it's about what it means to be human."" -Alok Vaid-Menon Named A Most Anticipated Book by Salon, The Week, Elle, Bustle, and more. Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page captures the universal human experience of searching for ourselves and our place in this complicated world. ""Can I kiss you"" It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans person. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself, without the repression he'd carried for so long. But for Elliot, two steps forward had always come with one step back.