Sins of the Seventh Sister

An evocative memoir of the South describes his early life in West Virginia, when his mother took in Stanley, a teenager from the local orphanage who had attacked his drunken father for beating his mother and who had been castrated as punishment, detailing his lifelong relationship with Stanley and Stanley's metamorphosis into Stella, a famous opera star who lived her entire life as a woman. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.