Rough Paradise
- Publisher
- Quattro Books
- Initial publish date
- May 2014
- Category
- General, Gay, Lesbian, Coming of Age
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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.