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Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Book*
"I'm determined to get to know the real Tommy, to trace the shape of my scars."
For years, Tommy Dorfman turned her back on her thoughts and emotions, hoping they'd simply go away.
After a lifetime of confusion, she finally gained clarity around her gender and began to transition.
But there were still parts of herself she'd locked away, elements of her story that she needed, for the first time, to fully confront.
She sought guidance in a tarot deck.
Maybe This Will Save Me is Tommy's story, told the cards of that tarot pull. For the first time, she opens up about:
Maybe This Will Save Me is a luminously written, bracingly honest, and structurally audacious memoir of an artist whose vision transcends mediums.
*An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Book*
"I'm determined to get to know the real Tommy, to trace the shape of my scars."
For years, Tommy Dorfman turned her back on her thoughts and emotions, hoping they'd simply go away.
After a lifetime of confusion, she finally gained clarity around her gender and began to transition.
But there were still parts of herself she'd locked away, elements of her story that she needed, for the first time, to fully confront.
She sought guidance in a tarot deck.
Maybe This Will Save Me is Tommy's story, told the cards of that tarot pull. For the first time, she opens up about:
- growing up the youngest of five children while grappling with her identity
- the turbulent she spent as a teenager, numbed by drugs and alcohol
- her early aspirations of stardom and the hard fought path she forged to get there
- the long night that led her to finally seek treatment for addiction
- her breakout role in 13 Reason Why
- the relationships that shaped her
Maybe This Will Save Me is a luminously written, bracingly honest, and structurally audacious memoir of an artist whose vision transcends mediums.
Book Details
- Publisher: Hanover Square Press
- Publish Date: May 27th, 2025
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: Original - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.20in - 6.38in - 0.69in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9781335498564
- Categories: • Memoirs• LGBTQ+• Women
About the Author
Dorfman, Tommy: - Tommy Dorfman is a writer, director, and actor. She made her Broadway debut in Sam Gold's Romeo + Juliet and is known for her work in Netflix's 13 Reasons Why. Her production company, Fever Dream, shines a light on various human experiences not yet told in film, television, and theater. Her debut feature film, I Wish You All the Best, premiered at SXSW in 2024. She holds a BA from Fordham University and is the recipient of a GLAAD Award. Born in Atlanta, Dorfman resides in New York City. This is her first book.
Praise for this book
"Tommy Dorfman has written a fascinating, innovative twist on memoir, a book that breaks new forms to produce flashing vignettes of insight while compiling a moving document on the process of becoming."--Torrey Peters, national bestselling author of Detransition, Baby "Tommy Dorfman is as funny as she is self-aware, as bold as she is beautiful, and has turned her remarkably specific life into something wildly universal. This collection will ask you to reckon with what it means to define yourself in a culture hell bent on defining you--required reading for anyone who has ever rejected the story other wrote for them in order to write their own, and for anyone who wants to but doesn't have the tools yet."--Lena Dunham