Mind-Boggle: A Novel

by Daniel Dyer

It's 1982. And a boy who has just finished his sophomore year in an Oklahoma high school is about to experience a most profound change in his life. Before long he is living in another town--this one in Ohio--with another set of parents. His past, for all practical purposes, is gone. Deleted everywhere, except in his memory. He can never go back. And--most alarmingly of all--he is not just living in another town, attending another school; he is also living in another body, one that is very, very different from the one he was born with. An accident that sophomore summer has changed all. And as he enrolls in this new school for the last part of his junior year, he discovers that so much of what he used to think and feel just no longer matters. Much of what he used to know is no longer relevant. He has to learn new ways--and quickly, too. At times, he feels like a creature rather than a person. Like something out of a horror story. Like Frankenstein's creature. But with a couple of crucial differences. He is young and very attractice. And "He" is now a girl. What's happened? The girl tells her own story--thirty years after these startling events--because, at last, in 2012, she believes it's safe to do so. She writes in the voice of her 16-year-old self, relating her shocking story.

174 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 2, 2012