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Maybe This Will Save Me

A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation

by Tommy Dorfman
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*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 structured through the cards of that tarot pull. The youngest of five children, she grappled with her own identity from an early age and spent her teenage years numbed by drugs and alcohol. At the same time, she harbored dreams of creative stardom and a desire to make herself seen. Charting her early struggles in theater, her rise to fame in 13 Reasons Why, her hard-fought journey to sobriety, and 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.

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    May 27, 2025

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      • ISBN: 9780369735188

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      • ISBN: 9780369735188
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  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      December 1, 2024

      Dorfman, a writer, director, and actor (Netflix's 13 Reasons Why), debuts with a 100K-copy first printing for this memoir structured around the cards of a tarot pull. Dorfman writes about her early life in theater, her journey to sobriety, her relationships, and her path to self-acceptance. Prepub Alert.

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      Starred review from April 1, 2025
      As her nonlinear and combustibly propulsive memoir attests, Dorfman has lived a lot of life in her 32 years. Framed loosely around a tarot reading Dorfman did for herself, overlooking a Montana lake at the outset of her transition, the book burrows into Dorfman's privileged and family-surrounded childhood, churns through hard-partying teenage and early adult years, and ascends to her steady work towards becoming an actress and filmmaker and ensuing success. But not, or not only, in that order. With candor and bracing humor, Dorfman also relates the loneliness of being an out gay teenager, exhilarating and, in hindsight, terrifying sexual experiences, and transformative romantic liaisons, some also doomed. After the end of a relationship during which Dorfman felt encouraged to be her full trans self in a splashy story for Time, she "felt like I was in control of the lion, that I could mount it and ride off into an abundant future." Addiction tethers much of Dorfman's coming-of-age, with a stint in rehab that led to sobriety becoming a before-and-after moment. Translating her full life to this fully engrossing book, Dorfman asserts herself as this kind of artist, too: an imaginative and truthful writer in steady ownership of her story.

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