Book Giveaway For Confessions of a Teenage Hermaphrodite

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Young adult, coming-of-age novel, an authentic portrayal of the issues face by an intersex teen.

Jameson was born with a testis, an ovary, and a pixie face. What was between his legs left the doctors guessing at the baby's sex.

Assigned male, it soon became obvious that Jamie considered herself female. After some resistance, her parents let her live as a girl.

When Jamie was nine, authorities discovered that the boy Jameson was being illegally home schooled. The family began a frantic search for a doctor who would help correct Jamie's birth certificate to female. Meanwhile, Jameson had to be a boy again.

At sixteen, the four-foot-eleven soprano leaves home for a boys' dorm at college. His father is convinced that his son is happy as a boy. But then a medical student tells Jamie he should have been raised female. Childhood memories stir and Jamie begins a perilous journey to adulthood.

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