I think this might be the QUEEREST book I have ever read!! At some point in the first chapter I thought to myself "A straight person could never have written this," and I was delighted. Set in 1993, it starts in Iowa City where Paul is half-heartedly working on a film degree. Most though he is bartending, dressing up, flirting, and constantly on the prowl for potential conquests. One day he decides he want to try lesbian sex and so grows breasts, transforms his dick into a vagina, and goes to see a touring girl band from Seattle playing at a local club. It turns out Paul has had the ability to transform himself since childhood- in fact, for a while he thought all queer people could do it. He doesn't know why he has this ability or if he is the only one who has it. But he isn't greatly concerned. Lesbian sex is good; he decides to try his luck at the Michigan Women's Music festival, which he road trips to with his best friend Jane. Thus begins a wandering, whimsical journey into various queer subcultures from Provincetown to Chicago to San Francisco. The book is deeply rooted it it's time period; the specter of AIDs haunting the edged of every community, and constant references to the music of the era on a mix of CDs and cassette mix tapes. This book was a strange delight, I definitely recommend it.