Norma's Voice
ISBN: 1-933720-07-7 (978-1-933720-07-4)
Winner for Unpublished
Memoir in the 12th Annual San Diego Book Awards.
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Genre: Transgender / Drama / Non-fiction
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Synopsis:
I am a transgender. I have lived a life of 72 years as a woman in
the body of a man. Norma’s Voice is the story of that
life.
This memoir begins before I existed. It covers both
the profound agony and the wild comedy of living in a perpetual state
of gender fluidity. The memoir specifically dwells on my early childhood,
my marriage of 24 years to a wonderful woman, her death, the “death”
of my male identity, and the final birth of my womanhood.
The memoir spends some time ruminating on existential
matters, in a manner which illuminates the curious way a transgender
person relates to self; to family; to men, women and all humanity;
to God; and to the cosmos.
A theme runs throughout: The intense need for Norma
to scream, and her inability to do so, because she had no voice. Hence
the title. The memoir ends with Norma finding her voice at last, and
in so doing, finds that she no longer is driven to scream.