XX:
AN INTERGENERATIONAL GENDER MEMOIR
by Sheryl Boris-Schacter
Available April 2027
Vine Leaves Press
About XX
XX: AN INTERGENERATIONAL GENDER MEMOIR, uses connected stories to explore how gender behavior, identity, and expression shifted significantly in just three generations of a single family. Three successive generations born with XX chromosomes, presumed to be female, in decidedly different cultural eras, historical periods, and political contexts: a curler-wearing member of the silent generation, a hippie boomer, and a non-binary trans millennial. Three generations defining themselves as both the same and different from their mothers.
At its heart, the memoir poses a timeless question: does being true to ourselves always involve disappointing our mothers?
About the author
Sheryl Boris-Schacter built her career in education as a teacher, principal, professor, and leader in a national nonprofit using writing as a tool to connect research with real-world practice. She is the author of more than twenty scholarly articles and two nonfiction books on educational leadership, Balanced Leadership: How Effective Principals Manage Their Work (Teachers College Press) and The Changing Relationship Between Principal and Superintendent (Jossey-Bass).
Her newest book, to be published in April 2027 by Vine Leaves Press, is Sheryl’s first work of creative non-fiction. XX: AN INTERGENERATIONAL GENDER MEMOIR, draws on both her professional insight and personal experience as a mother and a daughter.
Sheryl holds a doctoral degree from Harvard University and lives with her husband Bill in New York’s Hudson Valley. Consistent with Sheryl’s passion for feminism and gender justice, she is currently writing a yet-to-be-named historical novel about an aristocratic suffragist and art gallery owner residing in New York City in 1912.
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