Sharon D. reviewed on 12/4/2005 + 224 more book reviews

Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her father's brusqueness, Noelle idolized her nurturing tomboy mother and her conservative grandma, who tried to turn her into 'a little lady.' At age fourteen, Noelle's mom told her the family secret. "Dad likes to wear women's clothes." As Noelle copes with a turbulent adolescence, confused by her male and female role models, her father begins to metamorphose into the loving parent she had always longed for - only now outfitted in pedal pushers and pink lipstick. Here is a profundly affecting account of her father's long road to self-relization and a meditation on what it mans to be female.

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