Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

In this tender and deeply personal memoir, Zoë Bossiere reflects on their childhood growing up as a transgender boy in rural Arizona. Through vivid storytelling and emotional insight, they explore gender, class, family, and the shaping of self in a place where queerness felt invisible. It is a coming-of-age story filled with longing, resilience, and discovery.

~ Included for its heartfelt and nuanced portrayal of growing up trans in a working-class, conservative environment, offering essential representation of transmasculine and nonbinary youth. ~