Full name: Perfect Peace: A Novel

Author: Daniel Black Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction, LGBT Culture: African-American Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312571658 0312571658

The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family's attempt to grapple with their mother's desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have      When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, "You was born a boy. I made you a girl. But that ain't what you was supposed to be. So, from now on, you gon' be a boy. It'll be a little strange at first, but you'll get used to it, and this'll be over after while."      From this point forward, his life becomes a bizarre kaleidoscope of events. Meanwhile, the Peace family is forced to question everything they thought they knew about gender, sexuality, unconditional love, and fulfillment. Similar books: I Left My Back Door Open by April Sinclair Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell The Warmest December by Bernice L. McFadden Liliane by Ntozake Shange The Wedding by Dorothy West Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do by Pearl Cleage The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor Good Hair by Benilde Little Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange Like One of the Family by Alice Childress God Help the Child by Toni Morrison Seraph on the Suwanee by Zora Neale Hurston The Cattle Killing by John Edgar Wideman Singing in the Comeback Choir by Bebe Moore Campbell The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Christodora by Tim Murphy Twelve Gates to the City by Daniel Black They Tell Me of a Home by Daniel Black The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips