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Who Killed Mabel Frost?
I thought I was unhappy as a man. Turns out I was just unhappy…
In Greek mythology it is told how Tiresias the blind seer disturbed a pair of mating snakes, striking them with his staff. The goddess Hera, angered by the seer’s act, transformed him into a woman. Like Tiresias, in 2016 writer and drag queen Miss Unity underwent his own metamorphosis, from a lonely, Dickens-loving grad student to the meth-smoking, hard-partying hurricane known as Mabel Frost. In searingly honest, darkly funny essays, Unity retraces his progress from man to woman and back to man. For anyone who’s ever had to kill their old self to become the person they were born to be.
In Greek mythology it is told how Tiresias the blind seer disturbed a pair of mating snakes, striking them with his staff. The goddess Hera, angered by the seer’s act, transformed him into a woman. Like Tiresias, in 2016 writer and drag queen Miss Unity underwent his own metamorphosis, from a lonely, Dickens-loving grad student to the meth-smoking, hard-partying hurricane known as Mabel Frost. In searingly honest, darkly funny essays, Unity retraces his progress from man to woman and back to man. For anyone who’s ever had to kill their old self to become the person they were born to be.
288 pages, Paperback
Published April 4, 2024
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May 14, 2024
Fresh, challenging, and beautiful.
December 21, 2024
Who Killed Mabel Frost?
Read the book to find out.
Uncover a world of dark lies, dark honesty, betrayal, friendship, love, hatred, jealousy, explosive emotions, drugs, and (reckless) decisions.
Miss Unity thought in order to be happy, life as a woman was warranted. Trading graduate school and dreams of becoming a professor for drugs, sex, and an alternate life, Miss Unity shows us the depths of how far and fast human darkness, and also human light, can grow.
This book is essentially my bible. I will live my life by it - not for its ability to look exactly my life, but rather for its ability to trangress the pain so many of us feel but are so afraid to show to others.
What a wonderful time to be alive at the same time as Miss Unity. A true blessing.
Like Miss Unity, I killed my old self to become my new self. And while I moved to Alaska instead of transitioning genders, my own transformation is already underway. I can feel it - I'm a different woman because Alaska has changed me for forever, and I'm a different woman because I have now read this book.
The dedication reads, "for all the little dead ones." In order to not be little dead ones, we must become invigorated and alive by embracing what we were truly meant for. Sometimes, bad or reckless decisions can show you what this is. Read the book. It will teach you a lot.
Jake: part of the fun of reading Mabel Frost is seeing how far down this drug-addled, sex-addicted rabbit hole we can go.
We fall far. It's a long way down. But let's all fall together, shall we?
Read the book to find out.
Uncover a world of dark lies, dark honesty, betrayal, friendship, love, hatred, jealousy, explosive emotions, drugs, and (reckless) decisions.
Miss Unity thought in order to be happy, life as a woman was warranted. Trading graduate school and dreams of becoming a professor for drugs, sex, and an alternate life, Miss Unity shows us the depths of how far and fast human darkness, and also human light, can grow.
This book is essentially my bible. I will live my life by it - not for its ability to look exactly my life, but rather for its ability to trangress the pain so many of us feel but are so afraid to show to others.
What a wonderful time to be alive at the same time as Miss Unity. A true blessing.
Like Miss Unity, I killed my old self to become my new self. And while I moved to Alaska instead of transitioning genders, my own transformation is already underway. I can feel it - I'm a different woman because Alaska has changed me for forever, and I'm a different woman because I have now read this book.
The dedication reads, "for all the little dead ones." In order to not be little dead ones, we must become invigorated and alive by embracing what we were truly meant for. Sometimes, bad or reckless decisions can show you what this is. Read the book. It will teach you a lot.
Jake: part of the fun of reading Mabel Frost is seeing how far down this drug-addled, sex-addicted rabbit hole we can go.
We fall far. It's a long way down. But let's all fall together, shall we?
October 26, 2025
An honest, raw, poignant telling of finding oneself. Bravo.
December 29, 2024
As a transsexual who similarly blossomed from the all too familiar radical queer communes/community in TN and elsewhere in America - this delightful little book hits close to home. This review is written preemptively as I am not quite through with the book, but halfway through I am laughing so hard I am in tears, and find my self hollering as I relate to the wild ride that is being Mabel Frost. Bravo to Miss Unity for naming the complexities and nuances of the experience of moving through trans womanhood without romanticizing or being cruelly critical. This book is such a treat - it’s juicy and wild. Beautifully done.
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