Mr. Fun Hog -- Hurricane Ethel -- After the Bath -- The Failures of Milk -- Come Down in Time -- Monkey Orphanage -- House of Mystery -- Bright Star -- The Troubles -- The Ice Storm -- Wibbly Wobbly -- Boygirl -- "They Aren't Like Jellyfish at All" -- Some Pig -- Persons Such as Themselves -- Drunken Noodles -- The Yankee-Doodle Girl -- Conundra, or The Sick Arab -- Explosive Bolts -- The Death of Houdini -- The New Equator -- Afterword: Imagining Jenny / Richard Russo.
Summary
A memoir that tells the story of a person who changed genders chronicles the life of James, a critically acclaimed novelist, who eventually became Jenny, a happy and successful English professor.