Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

"Part travelogue, part social exploration, Bloom uses compassion and humor to raise the possibility of expanding the American sexual spectrum."--The Hartford Courant

"[F]luid and deftly contructed essays. . . . Bloom's unwillingness to embrace simple formulations, her insistence on digging deeper, is her book's strength." --The New York Times Book Review

"This is an important book which says new and interesting things about sex and gender and - it is a very good read." -Grace Paley

"Fascinating without being prurient. . . [Normal] opens new ways of viewing not only gender but our own inability to accept difference."--Publisher's Weekly

"Colorful stories. . .stellar writing."--Entertainment Weekly

"Amy Bloom's wonderful eye and ear are evident. . . She cares for her subjects but retains her objectivity; her great skill is in extracting and weaving from the specific stories her own original thesis about sexuality and gender. This is an important work."-Abraham Verghese, author of My Own Country

"Such is Bloom's skill as an interviewer and a writer that she removes the sensationalism from the subject. . .She is an excellent writer and a sensitive listener."-Deseret News

"As Amy Bloom walks us through her adventures in genderland, she draws compulsively readable pictures of the folks she met there."-Out

"Wonderfully written, thoughtfully and compassionately told. . . A mind-opening, spirit-enlarging book."-Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand

"A moving examination of the variety of gender and erotic preferences."-Kirkus Reviews

"Bloom dares the reader to be willingly confounded by her always engaging, frequently humorous interviewees while also airing her own reactions. . . An accessible, nonsensationalistic introduction to a fascinating and controversial subject."-Library Journal

"Bloom's understanding of gender changed radically after her remarkable odyssey into the hidden worlds of female-to-male transsexuals, heterosexual cross-dressers, and hermaphrodites, so will her readers'."-Booklist

The psycholtherapist and critically acclaimed author of A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You offers a thought-provoking study of individuals whose lives fall outside the parameters of "normal" definitions of gender, sex, and identity. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.