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Rough Paradise

by (author) Butler Alec

Publisher
Quattro Books
Initial publish date
May 2014
Category
General, Gay, Lesbian, Coming of Age
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781988254005
    Publish Date
    May 2014
    List Price
    $11.99

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Description

Rough Paradise is a unique and moving novella about identity and growing up Intersex in a violent, unwelcoming, heteronormative world. Terry Tomey was born with an Intersex condition which wreaks havoc with his puberty. He is on the verge of suicide when he meets Darla, the only person who accepts Terry and who is going through a crisis of her own. Both incur the wrath of the community and their families when they fall in love and begin to explore their queer sexuality.

About the author

Alec Butler is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker whose play Black Friday was a finalist for a Governor General’s Award for Drama in 1991. His film trilogy about growing up Trans/Intersex/2Spirit, Misadventures of Pussy Boy, was recently awarded the Best Short/ Audience Favourite Award at the International Transgender Film Festival in Amsterdam. Butler lives in Toronto.

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