Perfect Peace, Daniel Black
Perfect Peace, Daniel Black
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Perfect Peace
A Novel

Author: Daniel Black

Narrator: Ron Butler

Unabridged: 14 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/28/2016

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, "You was born a boy. I made you a girl. But that ain't what you was supposed to be. So, from now on, you gon' be a boy. It'll be a little strange at first, but you'll get used to it, and this'll be over after while." From this point forward, his life becomes a bizarre kaleidoscope of events. Meanwhile, the Peace family is forced to question everything they thought they knew about gender, sexuality, unconditional love, and fulfillment.

About Daniel Black

Daniel Black was raised in Blackwell, Arkansas, and now teaches at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned his PhD in African American studies from Temple University, then returned to Clark Atlanta as a professor with hopes of inspiring young black minds to believe in themselves. His heart's desire is to write literature which celebrates the African American presence in America and teaches the world how to be more human. He is the author of Listen to the Lambs, The Coming, Twelve Gates to the City, Perfect Peace, They Tell Me of a Home, and The Sacred Place.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

is this the best book i have ever read? no. is this the best book i have ever read about a child raised as the gender their parents wanted them to be instead of what their genitals wanted them to be? no. but it is still very very good. this is another book where he is not a fantastic writer, but he is a......more

Goodreads review by Vacirca

I GIVE THIS NOVEL TEN STARS! Imagine being a mother of six boys when all you have ever hoped for in life was to give birth to a daughter? When you were young, you played with your dolls pretending that you were caring for that daughter you hoped would grow up to love you. You prayed that your littl......more

Goodreads review by Stanley

It was not simply that Emma Jean Peace desperately wanted a daughter after giving her husband six sons. She wanted to shower on a daughter all the love, pampering, consideration and care she did not receive as the dark-skinned child of a woman who heaped unimaginable pain and suffering upon a child......more

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