Research Catalog

Title

Earth as it is / Jan Maher.

Author

Maher, Jan

Publication

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xiii, 257 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"Charlene (aka Charlie) Bader is one of society's least understood people--a heterosexual cross-dressing man. It's the 1930s in Texas when Charlie comes of age with urges he has struggled with since childhood and does not understand. After his new bride finds him wearing her own sexy lingerie and leaves him in disgust, he tries to move on. His efforts lead him to Chicago, where he stumbles on a community of cross-dressers and begins to attend their secret soirees. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, he volunteers for the army, serving as a dentist and trying once again to leave his obsession with soft clothes behind. Instead, his wartime experiences combined with the Army's faulty record-keeping lead to his reappearance in the small town of Heaven, Indiana, as Charlene. There, Charlene opens a beauty shop where Heaven's women safely share their stories and secrets as she shampoos, clips, curls, and combs their hair. Charlene deftly manages to keep her own story hidden and her sexual desires quiet until she falls in love with a female customer and her life begins to change."--

Series Statement

Break away books

Uniform Title

Break away books.

Subject

• Cross-dressers > Indiana > Fiction
• Cross-dressing > Fiction
• Gender identity > Fiction

Genre/Form

Romance fiction.

Note

• Include book club guides.

Call Number

JFD 17-1923

ISBN

• 9780253024046
• 0253024048

LCCN

2016024864

OCLC

953926779

Author

Maher, Jan, author.

Title

Earth as it is / Jan Maher.

Publisher

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]

Edition

Break away book club edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Break away books

Break away books.

Added Author

Maher, Jan. Break away books.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-1923