This was such an intense read.

I cried, screamed, laughed, smiled and worried throughout this book.  Being a lover of exploring the human mind, this book was perfect.  Woulff has a way of putting thoughts on paper that make you live them while reading.

This book is not for the weak of mind or heart.  It has a lot of controversial characters and topics which will shock and embarrass.  And it’s about time someone wrote about it.  There is no sugar coating on character ethics in this book as the point it show real reactions to circumstances that happen every day.

I recommend this book to everyone.  You don’t need to be part of the GLBT community to enjoy or even understand it.  There were no inner jokes, everything was laid out on the table.  Every emotion, every heartache, every empowerment.  Everyone will take something away from it.  This is one of those rare books where once you are done reading it, you will become a better person by better understanding others.

Product Description

“Don’t hate, Nicholas. Hate destroys everything. Don’t let it destroy you…”

For decades, ultra-liberal Windfield College has been a thorn in the side of Northern Virginia’s hidebound elite. When a teaching position unexpectedly becomes available, the school hires a former male graduate – now a transsexual woman named Nickie Farrell – as an assistant professor of English. Hoping to find peace, Nickie keeps her secret under wraps until ambitious lesbian student reporter Cinda Vanderhart outs her. And Cinda has noticed something else: both Nickie and a young townie waiter named Collie Skinner have a genetic quirk which causes their eyes to be different colors. Convinced that the similarity is no coincidence, Cinda begins an investigation to discover the connection between them.

Meanwhile, in a death-bed confession as she succumbs to years of brutality at the hands of her disgraced cop husband, Collie’s mother Luanne reveals that his birth resulted from an illicit affair she had with a long-vanished Windfield college senior named Nick Farrington. Shattered by his mother’s death, Collie turns for comfort to Robin Thompson, a gentle-hearted Christian co-worker at the upper-crust Foxton Arms restaurant. As Nickie is stalked by a pair of homicidal sociopaths, Robin finds herself entangled not only in Cinda’s investigative machinations but also a murderous plot by former U.S Ambassador and tycoon Eamon Douglass to eradicate the hated college with a suicide detonation of a Cesium 137 dirty bomb. Lives and secrets hang in the balance until everything comes to a head on the morning of Windfield’s annual spring picnic: April Fools Day.

Filled with richly-drawn characters and building to a stunning climax, SHE’S MY DAD is a story about the destructiveness of hate, the power of love, and the redemptive triumph of good over evil.

Like her title character Nickie Farrell, Iolanthe Woulff is a transsexual woman. A fifty-nine-year-old Princeton-educated English major, she lives in Palm Springs, CA, where for several years she wrote a column in a local magazine about the challenges of gender transition. As the eldest child of author Herman Wouk, storytelling has always been dear to Ms. Woulff’s heart. Her hope is that besides providing a suspenseful read, SHE’S MY DAD will help to dispel some of the widespread misconceptions about transsexual people.

This book is written from the point of view of Harvey Dunne.  A man who tries so hard to live life as a heterosexual even though his heart isn’t in it.

“Is Harvey Dunne?” takes a reader through an honest, realistic, poignant journey as to how homosexuals were treated in the early nineties.  (And let’s be honest, are still being treated like this today)  Even though Harvey is the story teller, as a reader you will learn how everyone he knows is affected by his actions and feelings.  The only reason this book works is because it’s real, everyone can relate to the characters and nothing is forced.

This book made me laugh, smile, scream and cry in just the right spots.  Again, the only way that was possible was because this book was written in a realistic and documentary style.  You could feel the helplessness and frustration of each character and were walked though it which gave the feelings that much more substance.

This book blew me away and should be featured in every book store in my opinion.  Every single one.  Front and center.  With huge spotlights shining down on it. That’s how much I back this book.