Description: As the last summer before her daughter goes away to college approaches, Alison, a popular elementary school teacher in her small Vermont town, decides to do something for herself and enrolls in a film course at the local college. She finds herself attracted to the good-looking, eligible professor who is closer to her age than anyone else in the class, and she soon enters into a relationship with him that's easy-going and mutually satisfying. Her ex-husband, who has remarried, but is still in love with Alison, finds himself particularly out-of-sorts over this unexpected relationship on the eve of their daughter's symbolic passage from child to college woman.

Told from the points of view of all four characters in alternating chapters -- each adding fascinating details from their own perspective that the others aren't privy to -- Trans-sister Radio is a love story that becomes a fascinating novel of gender issues and social mores, as Alison's lover reveals his decision to finally become the woman he has always known he is. "I was simply born into the wrong body. It was a cosmic screw-up that has haunted me every day of my life", he tells Alison. "But there's one other thing I'm sure of: I love you and I will continue to love you, with or without a penis". Alison flees initially, but is soon drawn back, despite her confused feelings, by her aching sense of loss at not being near him and by the genuine love she feels for him.

How her daughter and her ex-husband and, indeed, the entire town responds to and interacts with these two people, who are exploring entirely unknown terrain for each, becomes a powerful and remarkable tale of love and truth and redemption.

Please Wait