Telling a story of suffering, searching, and hope, LITTLE STAR shows how one person transformed the adversity she faced as a transgender woman with terminal cancer into wisdom, love, forgiveness, and a sense of identity. In her own words and drawings, recorded and made from her hospice bed, Carmelita Estrellita worked with friend and artist Lauren Catlett to compose a selection of stories and insights from her life to inspire and comfort those who face discrimination and illness.This book is EstrellitaÕs parting gift to a world that, in spite of the hardships it brought her, she came to understand, to forgive, and to love.