Just Like a Woman

by Danielle Crowe, Matthew Z. Lewin (With)

This is a bold and unusual book which challenges normal classification by borrowing a metamorphosis concept from Franz Kafka – except that in this novel, our hero goes to sleep as a man and wakes up as a woman. Dan becomes Danielle who, after many days of terror and confusion, slowly begins to come to terms with the shock and her dilemma and starts learning how to be a woman. She needs to buy new clothing, deal with the many legal and organisational challenges that face her, and she also has to come to terms with an altogether new and exciting sexuality which changes subtly as Dan (originally in the forefront) begins to recede and Danielle becomes more and more a real person, and someone in full control of her own life. And underlying everything is a powerful love story that turns out to be very different from most expectations.

300 pages, Paperback

First published December 18, 2014

Reviews

[Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

An interesting, very well written twist on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis." The main character in "Just Like a Woman," a young man, inexplicably wakes up one morning as a woman and has to deal with all the ramifications of that change. What I liked about this book is that the story seemed to flow naturally and was genuine. There weren't the blatant gender stereotypes or sitcom like situations that you might get from a lesser author with a similar story. In fact, the author has such a solid grasp of both genders and behavior that I honestly don't know whether the author is "Danielle" or "Daniel."