Hermaphrodeity

Hermaphrodeity is the seriously comic tale of Millie/Willie, a girl who has no idea until shes sixteen that besides being fully female, she was born with undescended male organs. And she now stubbornly refuses to let surgeons make her single-sexed. Millie/Willie isnt transsexual. Shes double-sexed. In a visionary comedy Millie/Willie battles, inch by inch, from sensitive girlhood . . . to tough punk in a boys gang . . . to Harvard freshman who impregnates himself . . . to goddess seized for a primitive erotic ritual . . . to archaeologist who unearths the ultimate secret of manwomankind. A comic epic, Hermaphrodeity was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Alan H. Friedman, whose honors include a National Book Award nomination for fiction and a National Grand Prize for poetry, is the author of The Turn of The Novel as well as of numerous short stories, poems, critical articles, and book reviews. He lives in Escondido, California, with his wife and two sons