A finalist for the Believer Book Award Named a best book by Kirkus, Bomb, the AV Club, PAPER, Literary Hub, Refinery29, Ms. Magazine, Chicago Review of Books, the Observer, and the Seattle Times. "Whitney stands as a deft executor of their own unique style. a writer who guides with an intuitive vulnerability and honesty." -- The Paris Review "An incisive, nuanced inquiry into gender and body." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Melodic and engagingly written, Heaven will enrapture anyone who loves reading for beauty and intellectual challenge at once." -- Literary Hub "Emerson Whitney's first prose book is a frank and absorbing examination of transness, brokenness, mothering, femininity, embodiment and truth." -- Ms.

Magazine One of the Observer's Best Books of Spring " Heaven is an unflinching personal examination of family and identity, bearing witness to what it means to live life on one's own terms." -- Foreword Reviews "A gripping memoir whose sentences are akin to a skipped heartbeat" -- PAPER, best books to buy in Quarantine "(U)tterly hypnotic. a gorgeous book that feels like a painting" -- The Seattle Times, Women's History Month Reading List "(W)hat Heaven does best is capture the disorienting pull of unsettling childhood memories--at once incomplete and terribly weighted." -- AV Club "Provocative, emotional, infinitely faceted. a reminder that messiness is at the heart of all beautiful things" -- Refinery29.