How is Nanny, the author's grandmother, described in the memoir, All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto?

Nanny, the author's grandmother on his mother's side, is portrayed as being strong-willed, compassionate, and particularly sensitive to the capacity for both being different and being lonely that she saw in the author when he was a child. She is portrayed as being equally loving towards all her grandchildren, but as being aware that there was something different in, or about, the author that needed a different sort and quantity of attention. She is also portrayed as being creative in terms of how she manifested her awareness of that difference, and as also being quite strict when it came to the behavior of all the young people she took care of.