Shes My Dad

Don t hate, Nicholas Hate destroys everything Don t let it destroy you For decades, ultra liberal Windfield College has been a thorn in the side of Northern Virginia s hidebound elite When a teaching position unexpectedly becomes available, the school hires a former male graduate now a transsexual woman named Nickie Farrell as an assistant professor of English Hoping to find peace, Nickie keeps her secret under wraps until ambitious lesbian student reporter Cinda Vanderhart outs her And Cinda has noticed something else both Nickie and a young townie waiter named Collie Skinner have a genetic quirk which causes their eyes to be different colors Convinced that the similarity is no coincidence, Cinda begins an investigation to discover the connection between them Meanwhile, in a death bed confession as she succumbs to years of brutality at the hands of her disgraced cop husband, Collie s mother Luanne reveals that his birth resulted from an illicit affair she had with a long vanished Windfield college senior named Nick Farrington Shattered by his mother s death, Collie turns for comfort to Robin Thompson, a gentle hearted Christian co worker at the upper crust Foxton Arms restaurant As Nickie is stalked by a pair of homicidal sociopaths, Robin finds herself entangled not only in Cinda s investigative machinations but also a murderous plot by former U.S Ambassador and tycoon Eamon Douglass to eradicate the hated college with a suicide detonation of a Cesium 137 dirty bomb Lives and secrets hang in the balance until everything comes to a head on the morning of Windfield s annual spring picnic April Fools Day Filled with richly drawn characters and building to a stunning climax, SHE S MY DAD is a story about the destructiveness of hate, the power of love, and the redemptive triumph of good over evil Like her title character Nickie Farrell, Iolanthe Woulff is a transsexual woman A fifty nine year old Princeton educated English major, she lives in Palm Springs, CA, where for several years she wrote a column in a local magazine about the challenges of gender transition As the eldest child of author Herman Wouk, storytelling has always been dear to Ms Woulff s heart Her hope is that besides providing a suspenseful read, SHE S MY DAD will help to dispel some of the widespread misconceptions about transsexual people. Read Shes My Dad – kino-fada.fr This was such an intense read.I cried, screamed, laughed, smiled and worried throughout this book Being a lover of exploring the human mind, this book was perfect Woulff has a way of putting thoughts on paper that make you live them while reading.This book is not for the weak of mind or heart It has a lot of controversial characters and topics which will shock and embarrass And it s about time someone wrote about it There is no sugar coating on character ethics in this book as the point it This was such an intense read.I cried, screamed, laughed, smiled and worried throughout this book Being a lover of exploring the human mind, this book was perfect Woulff has a way of putting thoughts on paper that make you live them while reading.This book is not for the weak of mind or heart It has a lot of controversial characters and topics which will shock and embarrass An...She s My DadBy Iolanthe WoulffOutskirts Press, Inc.ISBN 9781432743772 457 Pages Reverend Shorr sipped a glass of water Sometimes I think that the scientific community has taken us all much too far, much too fast Life was complicated enough beforeBut we mustn t second guess our Lord What a powerful suspense drama She s My Dad by Iolanthe Woulff is a provocative hold no bars book that successfully illustrates the power of both love and hate Woulff does this through characters that ar She s My DadBy Iolanthe WoulffOutskirts Press, Inc.ISBN 9781432743772 457 Pages Reverend Shorr sipped a glass of water Sometimes I think that the scientific community has taken us all much too far, much too fast Life was complicated enough beforeBut we mustn t second guess our Lord What a powerful suspense drama She s My Dad by Iolanthe Woulff is a provocative hold no bars book that successfully illustrates the power of both love and hate Woulff does this through characters that are so alive with their emotions that readers are immediately caught within the honest reality portrayed Fascinating By nature of the material covered, readers should be aware that some content might be offensive Personally, I didn t find it so because the characters that were offensive were those I enjoyed hating Then, too, as Reverend Shorr admitted in the book, there is too little written and taught about today s sexuality and our technological world I believe this type of f...She s My Dad by Iolanthe WoulffIn today s society, absolutely no one is immune to the forces of hate in the world Terrorist attacks, hate groups, and xenophobic neighborhoods, towns, and even nations are all appalling reminders that citizens of the world live daily with fear But, how often is the hate within ever addressed Due to blind prejudice, it doesn t take much for an average working American, or even a well respected financial baron, to build a bomb and set it off like some primitive She s My Dad by Iolanthe WoulffIn today s society, absolutely no one is immune to the forces of hate in the world Terrorist attacks, hate groups, and xenophobic neighborhoods, towns, and even nations are all appalling reminders that citizens of the world live daily with fear But, how often is the hate within ever addressed Due to blind prejudice, it doesn t take much for an average working American, or even a well respected financial baron, to build a bomb and set it off like some primitive Arabian towel head, as evidenced in this book and the news every night.She s My Dad brings this terrifying hate to the forefront and a spell binding and dynamic way It starts with a small town in Virginia A wealthy man disowns one of his sons because of his homosexuality, only to have that very son be his only surviving heir In an effort to shine a light on the inherent hate within our society, that son turns his vast fortune, and even his home, into a university whose ideals are integration and acc...An excellant story about a transgender woman named Nicki Farrell , who returns to her home town to teach English at her alma mater to a new generation of scholars unaware she has a son living near by, from an illicit love affair she had when she attended that school The towns people hate the...Iolanthe Woulff, She s My Dad Outskirts Press, 2009 Iolanthe Woulff is the child of Herman Wouk, and the promotional materials for She s My Dad, Woulff s first novel, make no secret of this fact It s worth keeping in mind as you read the book, for it may soften your reaction to a number of the book s shortcomings things that, at the time Wouk was writing his best known novels, werea part of the literary landscape than they are today Ah, butof that in a minute I m getting ahead of Iolanthe Woulff, She s My Dad Outskirts Press, 2009 Iolanthe Woulff is the child of Herman Wouk, and the promotional materials for She s My Dad, Woulff s first novel, make no secret of this fact It s worth keeping in mind as you read the book, for it may soften your reaction to a number of the book s shortcomings things that, at the time Wouk was writing his be...This was a very interesting book The story was certainly different form anything I had ever read before To try and describe it would, I think, ruin it for the next reader Suffice it to say, it kept me reading and reading I just had to know what was going to happen next, especially at the end.There were some editing and spelling errors, but not enough to be really distracting Lately, I find that there are few books without them.This was my first First reads win I sure hope it isn t my last This was a very interesting book The story was certainly different form anything I had ever read before To try and describe it would, I think, ruin it for the next reader Suffice it to say, it kept me reading and reading I just had to know what was going to happen next, especially at the end.There were some editing and spelling errors, but not enough to be really distracting Lately, I find that there are few books without them.This was my first F...I was very surprised by this novel These are not your normal, every day characters Not for the faint of heart, She s My Dad is an exciting, hard to put down, read.A lot of the character s are hateful, but a lot of them aren t, either I found some of the subject matter displeas...Great character study of racism, homophobia, and general all around hate with no real reason except a distaste for differences A college boys fling with a married woman comes full circle when he, now she, comes back two plus decades later This story has everything a lit...How far will a person go because of their hatred Hatred due to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, is a cancer Sadly, in this world, it s often proven that people will go as far as taking the lives of others, simply because of some difference This story illustrates that in a beautiful manner The story begins in 1979 in a small Virginia town A young, soon to be college graduate, named Nicholas Farrington has an affair with a married woman This relationship results in the birth of a How far will a person go because of their hatred Hatred due to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, is a cancer Sadly, in this world, it s often proven that people will go as far as taking the lives of others, simply because...You know the old adage about never judging a book by it s cover Well, this is one of those instances where I found myself twice passing over what turned out to be a wonderful novel The title is catchy and cute, but doesn t reflect the depth of the story within a novel that s the literary equivalent of the kind of prime time drama you might find on Showtime, HBO, or the BBC.Much of the story revolves around a conflict between Windfield College and the North Virginia town in which its students You know the old adage about never judging a book by it s cover Well, this is one of those instances where I found myself twice passing over what turned out to be a wonderful novel The title is catchy and cute, but doesn t reflect the depth of the story within a novel that s the literary equivalent of the kind of prime time drama you might find on Showtime, HBO, or the BBC.Much of the story revolves around a conflict between Windfield College and the North Virginia town in which its students and faculty resides On one side of the conflict we have the College itself, a liberally diverse institution that proudly boasts members of the LGBTQ c...

• English
• 23 July 2017
Iolanthe Woulff
• Paperback
• 470 pages
• 1432743775
• Iolanthe Woulff
• Shes My Dad