2003 Stonewall Book Awards
Discover the 2003 Stonewall Book Awards winners, featuring acclaimed LGBTQ+ fiction and history including Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, At Swim, Two Boys, Fingersmith, and How Sex Changed.
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How Sex Changed
by Joanne Meyerowitz
In this fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States, Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their gender. Illustrations.
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Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparent's desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
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At Swim, Two Boys
by Jamie O'Neill
Two young men, Jim, the naive, scholarly son of a Dublin shopkeeper, and Doyler, a rough working boy, struggle with issues of political, religious, and sexual identity in the year leading up to the Easter uprising of 1916.
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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
From the author of the "New York Times" Notable Book "Tipping the Velvet" comes a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves.