I HEARD HER CALL MY NAME: A Memoir of Transition, by Lucy Sante“I want to change my sex,” Patricia Highsmith wrote in her diary in 1948. Now comes Lucy Sante with a memoir, “I Heard Her Call My Name,” about transitioning in her late 60s from male to female. Sante worries too about her byline, her newly “dead” one, as if someone had shot it. At one point, she writes, she considered publishing a memoir that began: “This book is by Luc Sante, although it was written by Lucy Sante.” Yet here, happily, is Lucy entire. It is about Ferrell’s cross-country road trip with his best friend of 30 years who is transitioning.

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Persons: Lucy Sante “, ” Patricia Highsmith, Lucy Sante, “, Sante, Luc Sante, Lucy entire, Will Ferrell, “ Will, Harper, Jada Yuan Organizations: Sundance Film, Washington Post Locations: New York, Washington