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Beginning in Cork, Ireland, the novel recounts Perry's journey from daughter to son in order to enter medical school and provide for family, but Perry soon embraced the new-found freedom of living life as a man. From brilliant medical student in Edinburgh and London to eligible bachelor and quick-tempered physician in Cape Town, Dr. Perry thrived. When he befriended the aristocratic Cape Governor, the doctor rose to the pinnacle of society, before the two were publicly accused of a homosexual affair that scandalized the colonies and nearly cost them their lives. E. J. Levy's enthralling novel, inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, brings this captivating character vividly alive.
About the Author
E. J. Levy's writing has appeared in Paris Review, Best American Essays, Salon, Rumpus, and The New York Times, among other places, and has won a Pushcart Prize, among other honors. She edited Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers, which won the Lambda Literary Award. Her debut story-collection, Love, In Theory, won the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award, a 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Award, and the 2014 GLCA New Writers Award (given previously to Alice Munro, Louise Erdrich, Richard Ford, and Mary Szybist, for their first books) ; it was named a 2013 Kirkus Best Indie Book of the Year and called "a brilliant debut" by Cheryl Strayed. A French edition was published in 2015 by Editions Rivages. To learn more, visit www.ejlevy.com
