A brave book, a compelling story Reviewer: A reader from Philadelphia, PA

After knocking one out of the park with Midwives, Bohjalian has both capitalized on his singular knack for topical story-telling, and one-upped himself. For this conventionally phallo-centric male...[the] surgery wasn't an easy subject, but Bohjalian earned the right to make me squirm. The cleverest thing about this novel is the way in which, by the end of its pretty speedy 300 pages, a whole lot of things that had seemed pretty far out to me suddenly seemed not so strange at all. .... These lovely people, whatever their plumbing, deserve some happiness, and Bohjalian is wise and kind enough to give it to them. This is a love story that's both moving and makes you think. Exquisite, Painful, Emotive and Necessary Reviewer: A reader from South Carolina I read Mr. Bohjalian's wonderful prose while recovering from my own sexual reassignment surgery so perhaps I am biased. Having endured many indignities in my own life, yet now living a life that is both exceptionally normal and amazingly wonderful, I identified with Dana and her struggles for self and dignity. I believe Mr. Bohjalian is masterful as he captures the spectrum of reactions and responses both to transsexualism as well as it's collateral effects on those who date, marry or are the parents, siblings and friends of those seeking to resolve their transsexualism and recapture their birthright as women or men, as the case may be. - - - Mr. Bohjalian captures perfectly the ignorance and fear we often face as we attempt to do nothing more than seek treatment for what is, pure and simple, nothing more than a recognized medical condition. And not unlike cancer, transsexuality has been around forever, yet the reprieves available through medical advances have and are changing to afford us increasingly higher qualities of life. I think this notion comes across in his work also. Thank you Mr. Bohjalian for humanizing the efforts of myself and everyone else in the world like me.