Trans-Sister Radio: A Novel
Registered by BlueAmazon of Gaithersburg, Maryland USA on 6/15/2004
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
Allison Banks begins dating and falls in love with Dana Stevens, loving every bit of his gentle, kind soul. But when Dana goes through a sex-change operation, Allison isn't sure if it is his soul or his male self that she love. While facing these questions internally, Allie chooses to stand by Dana facing incredible homophobia and prejudice in their small Vermont community.
Amazing, enlightening story. another Bohjalian winner.
Amazing, enlightening story. another Bohjalian winner.
Very very delayed, am sending to fanclub in hawai'i
This arrived today, despite the Post Office's best attempts otherwise (the envelope was open and mangled, argh!). :D Anyway, it is here now and I can't wait to read it! After that it will go to the GLBT Student's Center at the University of Hawaii. Thanks so much for sharing!
**Spoilers ahead**
This book is beautifully written and the topic covered with great care and sensitivity. The author took pains to research the subject and present an accurate a view as possible. That is why I gave it 7. Beyond that, the book made me pretty angry! I found myself digging my heels in in the last 1/4 of the book, when I realized exactly what was going to happen. I feel that the author took the easy way out by ending the relationship between Dana and Allison. There is not enough decent coverage of the women who *do* stay with transgendered women after surgery, the ones who decide that they fell in love with a person and their gender shouldn't change that. But those women are out there. It is also fairly pat and easy to have Dana decide that she might be interested in men after all. This is a stereotype that bothers me - the transsexual lesbian deserves exploration, and this book seemed poised to do so. But then in the end Bohjalian gives Dana fantasies of "penetration" and sets her up to fall in love with the closest man handy. I was saddened by the ending of the book because of all it left unsaid. It could have been a great love story, but it ended up being about two women who were unable to live without penises in their lives.
This book is beautifully written and the topic covered with great care and sensitivity. The author took pains to research the subject and present an accurate a view as possible. That is why I gave it 7. Beyond that, the book made me pretty angry! I found myself digging my heels in in the last 1/4 of the book, when I realized exactly what was going to happen. I feel that the author took the easy way out by ending the relationship between Dana and Allison. There is not enough decent coverage of the women who *do* stay with transgendered women after surgery, the ones who decide that they fell in love with a person and their gender shouldn't change that. But those women are out there. It is also fairly pat and easy to have Dana decide that she might be interested in men after all. This is a stereotype that bothers me - the transsexual lesbian deserves exploration, and this book seemed poised to do so. But then in the end Bohjalian gives Dana fantasies of "penetration" and sets her up to fall in love with the closest man handy. I was saddened by the ending of the book because of all it left unsaid. It could have been a great love story, but it ended up being about two women who were unable to live without penises in their lives.
Journal Entry 5 by fanclub at University of Hawaii at Manoa – LGBTQ+ Center in Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Friday, February 11, 2005
Released 19 yrs ago (2/14/2005 UTC) at University of Hawaii at Manoa – LGBTQ+ Center in Honolulu, Hawaii USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES: Releasing in honor of Dan Clune. I will be releasing this to the bookshelf of the LGBT Student Center in the QLCSS building.
