Topeka & Shawnee Co. Public Library discussion

In The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin takes us to a planet where every citizen is both male and female, and the drive of sexual needs is limited to brief phases. It is a world known to outsiders as Winter, because the climate is brutally cold and the terrain is harsh.
An emissary to the planet hopes to establish communication and interaction with this world that is so different from any other familiar to the Known Worlds. The narrator remarks that the culture shock was much less than the "biological shock [he] suffered as a human male among human beings who were, five-sixths of the time, hermaphroditic neuters."
It's a story about trust, and an unlikely friendship. It opens up questions in a reader's mind and doesn't answer them.
I knew before I had even finished this novel that I would want to read it again!