num_pages: 476
description: Carley Burroughs is a happily married journalist with three grown sons. He is also a transsexual whose gender identity threatens to change his life in momentous ways that neither he nor his wife, Lynnelle, want to accept. In an effort to regress to a past life hypnotically, Carley slips sideways into a parallel universe where he meets himself: a young man who has taken the road of transition rather than the road of denial. In this 1950s universe, Carley, a freshman fraternity man at UCLA, makes the life-wrenching decision to begin living as a female. Carley has to face derision and rejection to deal with the emotional and practical problems of a relationship with Allen, and to cope with the huge complication of falling in love with her roommate, Lynnelle. While Carlie struggles with these changes in the twentieth century, Carley, in the twenty-first, finds the conflict in his own life intensifying almost unbearably.
language: English
title: Who Shall Command the Skylark?
titlecomplete: Who Shall Command the Skylark?
publisher: PublishAmerica