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Author Miles Borrero Reveals Spiritual Transition Journey From Colombia to the US to Achieve American Dream and Break Negative Stereotypes
Borrero’s New Memoir ‘Beautiful Monster: A Becoming’ Published in Time for Transgender Awareness Week
NEW YORK, November 8, 2023 (CarryOnHarry.com)
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Transgender Awareness Week begins Nov. 13, culminating with Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience on Nov. 20. Miles Borrero, author of the new memoir Beautiful Monster: A Becoming (Oct. 24, 2023; A Regalo Press Book; ISBN: 979-8-88845-000-0; $28.99; Hardcover), reveals his journey from girlhood in Colombia to an artistic and mindful life in the United States to achieve the American Dream. Yet, it was his father’s looming death that gave the 40-something-year-old author the impetus to make his transition from woman to man — and affirm his truest self.
Beautiful Monster candidly discloses Miles’ deepest fears after he decided to have top surgery — a double mastectomy — and start using male pronouns. Regardless of the strides made in the transgender movement over the last decade, Miles knew that he could face not only serious health challenges but also harsh discrimination — both personally and in the workplace. In America alone, the reports concerning transgender people are staggering:
- Transgender adults are twice as likely as cisgender adults to be unemployed (according to a November 2021 report from McKinsey & Co.), and cisgender employees earn about 32% more each year than their transgender colleagues, even when the latter have similar or higher education levels.
- Funders for LGBTQ Issues reports that trans people are more than twice as likely to live in extreme poverty (earning under $10,000 a year) than all other members of the general population, with Latinx transgender people facing three-and-a-half times and Black transgender people facing three times the poverty rate.
- According to the AMA, fatal anti-transgender violence in the U.S. is on the rise, and Black transgender women comprise the majority of victims. “The number of victims could be even higher due to underreporting,” notes AMA Board Member S. Bobby Mukkamala, M.D., “and better data collection by law enforcement is needed to create strategies that will prevent anti-transgender violence.”
In Beautiful Monster, Miles Borrero shares his remarkable life journey and spiritual awakening. Written with honesty, grace, humor, and, above all, depth of feeling, this memoir is, in Miles’ own words, “a true re-membering … An act of putting myself together with love.”
Publishers Weekly writes, “Borrero’s incandescent debut memoir … is by turns funny and gut-wrenching.… Readers will be captivated by this always inspiring, sometimes shattering story of self-discovery.”
About the Author
MILES BORRERO has survived fronting a Latin rock band, riding horses competitively, acting on various stages across the U.S., and nannying a six-year-old. He has been Catholic, Jewish, and a frequent guest at Krishna’s house, and has lived life as a boy, a girl, a woman, a man, and something in between. Now an acclaimed senior yoga teacher who leads retreats all over the world, Miles is passionate about dismantling the systems within ourselves that keep us small. He lives in New York with his sweetheart and their two adorable dogs.
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Author Tagore Almeida’s new book, “SALIGIA: The Evil Is Outside. The War Is Within.,” is now available on Amazon, according to the announcement promoting the release.
The title is not invented for the book. SALIGIA is a centuries-old Latin mnemonic device used in Christian theology to remember the seven deadly sins: Superbia (pride), Avaritia (greed), Luxuria (lust), Invidia (envy), Gula (gluttony), Ira (wrath) and Acedia (sloth). The sins themselves never appear as an explicit list in the Bible; the grouping developed within early Christian tradition, drawing on scattered biblical passages, and the acronym became a memory aid for clergy and laypeople alike. The announcement itself does not spell out this connection, though it’s central to how the book’s central conceit works.
Where the traditional mnemonic catalogs vices, Almeida’s book inverts it: according to the announcement, the story is structured as a journey through a symbolic ancestral dwelling with separate rooms, each embodying different virtues rather than sins — courage, compassion, humility, integrity, forgiveness, reverence and love. Other promotional material describes the book as a mythological fantasy following characters named Salem and Medea on a quest against the forces the title names, and credits the release to publisher The Alcove Publishers, which has described the book as blending mythology, self-reflection and mystery.
The announcement frames the project as “a fusion of mythological elements, spiritual themes, philosophical inquiry, and personal exploration,” built around the idea that readers already possess the virtues the book examines, rather than seeking them from external sources.
The book is currently listed for sale on Amazon under Almeida’s author page.
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Ginn grounds the story in his personal history: childhood in the Ozark hills and Navy service aboard an aircraft carrier during Vietnam, experience he has said shaped the novel’s naval detail. He has also described the Book of Esther as, in his words, the greatest "sting operation" in biblical history — a framing that underpins the book’s central comparison between the ancient narrative and its modern-day parallel plot. Ginn spent four years writing the novel, per the announcement.
"I wanted to illustrate God’s unwavering love for His people and show how Jesus’s death and resurrection makes eternal life possible for all believers," Ginn said in a statement released with the book. "By connecting Esther’s courage with contemporary challenges, I hoped to demonstrate that faith remains relevant and powerful in our modern world."
The novel centers on themes of redemption and what the publisher describes as divine providence — the concept that their encounter and purpose are ordained rather than coincidental. It was published through Christian Faith Publishing, a Christian-market publishing house, and is available now in bookstores and through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play and Barnes & Noble.
No release date beyond the announcement was provided, and there’s no indication yet of whether the book is part of a planned series.
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