Hi . . . anyone out there? I was hoping you guys would check out my new novel, Learning to Roar, and let me know what you think or help it out with a review.
Afraid to be clocked as a transgender woman, and preferring to just be accepted as a normal human being, New Zealand Ministry of Health statistical analyst Stephen McSorrily (soon to become Stephany Asteria) chooses selective mutism in order to avoid being outed by her male-sounding voice.
Through the course of her mid-life transition, she has lost her career, her marriage, her home, and her faith in the Roman Catholic Church. After also losing her closest transgender friend to a murderous self-loathing 'tranny chaser', Stephany suffers a mental breakdown, leaves town after a spell in hospital, and soon joins an obscure Sufi order.
Rapidly falling in love with a woman of Turkish descent, in her quest for acceptance, a new spirituality and an even greater inconspicuousness, she eventually journeys to a remote Indonesian island. But paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be, and her worst fear is realised when she is arrested by Sharia law advocates and exposed as trans.
Forced to endure the cruel mistreatment and humiliation commonly dealt out to Indonesian transgender or gender non-conforming people (known as 'waria'), Stephany discovers that a deeper self-acceptance is what she's really been seeking all along.
She must find her voice and return to speak out publicly against the transphobia which killed her friend and helped create her shame-based silence in the first place. But will anyone even be willing to hear what she has to say?
Thanks in advance to anyone who checks it out, and Merry Xmas! Cheers, Hafren
I was hoping you guys would check out my new novel, Learning to Roar, and let me know what you think or help it out with a review.
https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Roar-...
Afraid to be clocked as a transgender woman, and preferring to just be accepted as a normal human being, New Zealand Ministry of Health statistical analyst Stephen McSorrily (soon to become Stephany Asteria) chooses selective mutism in order to avoid being outed by her male-sounding voice.
Through the course of her mid-life transition, she has lost her career, her marriage, her home, and her faith in the Roman Catholic Church. After also losing her closest transgender friend to a murderous self-loathing 'tranny chaser', Stephany suffers a mental breakdown, leaves town after a spell in hospital, and soon joins an obscure Sufi order.
Rapidly falling in love with a woman of Turkish descent, in her quest for acceptance, a new spirituality and an even greater inconspicuousness, she eventually journeys to a remote Indonesian island. But paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be, and her worst fear is realised when she is arrested by Sharia law advocates and exposed as trans.
Forced to endure the cruel mistreatment and humiliation commonly dealt out to Indonesian transgender or gender non-conforming people (known as 'waria'), Stephany discovers that a deeper self-acceptance is what she's really been seeking all along.
She must find her voice and return to speak out publicly against the transphobia which killed her friend and helped create her shame-based silence in the first place. But will anyone even be willing to hear what she has to say?
Thanks in advance to anyone who checks it out, and Merry Xmas!
Cheers,
Hafren