Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish **Normal**, a provocative, intimate journey into the lives of “people who reveal, or announce, that their gender is variegated rather than monochromatic”—female-to-male transsexuals, heterosexual crossdressers, and the intersexed.We meet Lyle Monelle and his mother, Jessie, who recognized early on that her little girl was in fact a boy and used her life savings to help Lyle make the transition. On a Carnival cruise with a group of crossdressers and their spouses, we meet Peggy Rudd and her husband, “Melanie,” who devote themselves to the cause of “ordinary heterosexual men with an additional feminine dimension.” And we meet Hale Hawbecker, “a regular, middle-of-the-road, white-bread guy” with a wife, kids, and a medical condition, the standard treatment for which would have changed his life and his gender.Casting light into the dusty corners of our assumptions about sex, gender and identity, Bloom reveals new facets to the ideas of happiness, personality and character, even as she brilliantly illuminates the very concept of "normal.”All Identifiers : amazon:140003244X, goodreads:217082, isbn:9781400032440, mobi-asin:14587201-d0f4-41dd-9700-2bda4101f96aRecord ID : TEMPLATE ERROR Value: unknown field idNum of Aut : 1Single Author : Bloom, AmyNumber of Words in Auth: 2Uncomma Author : Amy BloomWörter : 36451Sorted Author by LN, FN: Bloom, AmyTitle Parm D : NormalTitle Parm F : NormalTitle Parm A : NormalTitle Parm B : (Title Length : 006Has Cover : TEMPLATE ERROR Interpreter: Internal error evaluating an expression: 'Metadata object has no attribute named: 'has_cover'' - line number 1Number of Formats : 0