false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172787162m/217082.jpg 217082 3 Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish <b>Normal</b>, a provocative, intimate journey into the lives of &#8220;people who reveal, or announce, that their gender is variegated rather than monochromatic&#8221;&#8212;female-to-male transsexuals, heterosexual crossdressers, and the intersexed. <br><br>We meet Lyle Monelle and his mother, Jessie, who recognized early on that her little girl was in fact a boy and used her life savings to help Lyle make the transition. On a Carnival cruise with a group of crossdressers and their spouses, we meet Peggy Rudd and her husband, &#8220;Melanie,&#8221; who devote themselves to the cause of &#8220;ordinary heterosexual men with an additional feminine dimension.&#8221; And we meet Hale Hawbecker, &#8220;a regular, middle-of-the-road, white-bread guy&#8221; with a wife, kids, and a medical condition, the standard treatment for which would have changed his life and his gender. <br><br>Casting light into the dusty corners of our assumptions about sex, gender and identity, Bloom reveals new facets to the ideas of happiness, personality and character, even as she brilliantly illuminates the very concept of "normal.&#8221; 3012 2002 Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude total:138|5:24|4:49|3:52|2:11|1:2| 138 496 214 20 217082 140003244X 9781400032440 132 19 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172787162m/217082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217082.Normal_Transsexual_CEOs_Crossdressing_Cops_and_Hermaphrodites_with_Attitude 2 0 false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Dec 05 20:05:09 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 21:01:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 217082 140003244X 9781400032440 132 19 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172787162m/217082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217082.Normal_Transsexual_CEOs_Crossdressing_Cops_and_Hermaphrodites_with_Attitude 4 0 false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 17:28:48 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 12:24:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 217082 140003244X 9781400032440 132 19 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172787162m/217082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217082.Normal_Transsexual_CEOs_Crossdressing_Cops_and_Hermaphrodites_with_Attitude 3 0 false Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 01 20:02:02 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 10 08:16:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 217082 140003244X 9781400032440 132 19 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172787162m/217082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217082.Normal_Transsexual_CEOs_Crossdressing_Cops_and_Hermaphrodites_with_Attitude 2 0 false Fri Jul 10 04:22:35 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 21:02:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 217082 140003244X 9781400032440 132 19 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172787162m/217082.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217082.Normal_Transsexual_CEOs_Crossdressing_Cops_and_Hermaphrodites_with_Attitude 4 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 20:23:30 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 20:23:30 -0800 2007
'[U]nhappiness teaches us something about happiness and loss teaches us something about what we have. . .

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