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The Year of the Dragon – A Self-Deprecating Diary One woman’s mildly disastrous year, told with brutal honesty and questionable dignity. My grandmother always gave us sound advice: “It is very difficult to go up in the world, but it is easy to come down.” Well… I came down with an almighty THUD, and totally unprepared for what lay ahead … This illustrated memoir chronicles 12 months in the life of a sixty-year-old “trans-financial” woman — a rich girl tragically trapped in a poor girl’s body — as she navigates failed job interviews, family chaos, political farce, and the quiet horror of being utterly out of sync with the modern world. Told with dry wit and a flair for self-mockery, this collaboration with her sister — whose brutally honest illustrations bring each failure vividly to life — finds humour in the hopeless and irony in the absurd