Helpful Score: 2
This is a beautifully written novel about an unusually difficult medical condition. When Jacinta and Treadway's only child is born with hermaphroditism, they are compelled to make a difficult decision about the child's gender identity. The challenges that they and their child encounter are heartbreaking. There is a pervasive and haunting sense of sadness and loneliness in parts of this book, and a very poignant message about acceptance. I will remember this book for quite awhile.
Helpful Score: 1
Ooh. This was good. It took me a while to get started on it- the beginning is a little slow and I wondered what the point of the book was going to be- but it very lovingly told the story of a hermaphrodite born into a difficult world= and probably a place in the world where acceptance is hardest to find. I was thoroughly absorbed.
I really loved this book, even though it was heartbreaking in places. I really appreciated the down-to-earth characters and the way the author told this story with sensitivity, and even a little humor now and then.
