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Book SynopsisAs seen on TikTok, Daniel Black's Perfect Peace is the heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family's attempt to grapple with their mother's desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have-a complex, imaginative story of one unforgettable black family in mid-twentieth century Arkansas (Atlanta Magazine).
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, Perfect's life becomes a bizarre kaleidoscope of events-while the rest of his family is forced to question everything they thought they knew about gender, sexuality, unconditional love, and fulfillment.
A morality tale of the consequence
