PERFECT PEACE by Daniel Black explores the fateful decision of Emma Jean Peace to raise her seventh son, Perfect, as the daughter she has always wanted.
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, his life becomes a bizarre kaleidoscope of events. Meanwhile, the Peace family is forced to question everything they thought they knew about gender, sexuality, unconditional love, and fulfillment.
Daniel Black is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, yet spent the majority of his childhood years in Blackwell, Arkansas. He graduated magna cum laude from Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, studied abroad at Oxford University in Oxford, England, and received a Ph.D from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He is now a tenured associate professor at Clark College.
October
2010
