Author:  John Colapinto
Publisher:  Perennial
ISBN:  0060929596
Publishing Date:  2001
Pages:  320
Format:  Softcover

Tells the story of a man whose botched circumcision as a baby and subsequent surgical alteration to a female was mistakenly used as an argument for the success of such procedures.

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Author:  Christopher Durang
Publisher:  Grove Press
ISBN:  0802131301
Publishing Date:  1989
Pages:  166
Format:  Trade paperback

In 'Laughing Wild, ' two comic monologues evolve into a man's and an woman's shared nightmare of modern life and the isolation it creates.

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Author:  Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher:  BLOOMSBURY PUB.
ISBN:  0747561621
Publishing Date:  2003
Pages:  544
Format:  Softcover

This is the tale of a gene that passes down through three generations and flowers in the teenage body of Callie. Thanks to this gene, she begins to realise she is part girl, part boy. What results is a fable of the intricacies of gender and the untidy promptings of desire.

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