From the recent historic gay marriage victory in the Supreme Court to Caitlyn Jenner’s splashy coming-out on the cover of Vanity Fair, the transformative potential of the transgender experience has inarguably never taken hold of the public dialogue to the extent it is today. With the July 2015 release of There Is Room For You: Tales From A Transgender Defender’s Heart, Zoe Dolan – one of America’s highest-profile criminal lawyers and transgender activists – shares her incredible story with the world. Contributing a nuanced, insightful, and inspiring portrait of life as a transgender woman, There Is Room For You has the capacity to speak to the heart of anyone – transgender or not – and help them believe in the title’s promise. Born in a boy’s body, Zoe moved to New York City when she was 17 years old. In the years that followed, she lived in Chicago, Guatemala, Syria, and Egypt, where she witnessed a life-changing human rights incident that inspired her to go to law school. There Is Room For You chronicles her journey across continents, cultures, and with her changing body. From her sex addiction recovery to her climb up the ivory tower of federal court as a young trial attorney – on cases ranging from al-Qaeda terrorism charges to what New York Magazine called “the worst scandal in the history of the NYPD” - There Is Room For You follows Zoe as she meditates upon how it felt to live in the wrong body, the experience of sex change surgery, and falling in love with men around the world along the way. Yet, all the while, she longed for acceptance from her family, society, and most of all, herself. “The purpose of There Is Room For You is twofold,” states Zoe. “First, it’s to tell my own story as a means of showing that the transgender experience is, in essence, a life experience – one that even non-transgender people can relate to. “Second, it is to share the process of growing into my identity in order to contribute to society as the person I am,” she continues. “I want to inspire others to do the same – whatever that goal may mean for them.” Evocative, tender, and entirely engrossing, There Is Room For You is a timely and important book from an exciting new literary voice.