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The Athiest and the Parrotfish
Richard Barager
Evolved Publishing
June 2017
On Sale: May 22, 2017
332 pages
ISBN: 1622530411
EAN: 2940154186909
Kindle: B06VY7PZ4Q
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Inspirational
Doctors tend to the needs of their patients, but patients
give meaning to the lives of their doctors. So it is for
Cullen Brodie, a twice-divorced California nephrologist, and
Ennis Willoughby, a troubled cross-dresser whose life is
saved by a rare heart-and-kidney transplant. Cullen’s bitter disbelief in the afterlife is tested when
Ennis begins to exhibit tastes and characteristics uncannily
similar to those of his female organ donor—whose first name
Ennis inexplicably knows. When Ennis becomes convinced that
the donor’s soul has inhabited him, Cullen sides with
Ennis’s psychiatrist, who tells Ennis he has subconsciously
confused his emerging transgender personality with the
imagined characteristics of his female donor. While his psychiatrist coaxes forth Ennis’s female side,
Cullen is summoned to the South Pacific by an old lover for
a reckoning of their past. On the island paradise of
Rarotonga, he is forced to confront the heartrending truth
about a tragedy that destroyed their college romance—a
tragedy Cullen blames on religious zealotry. Filled with resentment over what he has learned, Cullen
returns to Southern California determined to shatter Ennis’s
delusion of ensoulment. But Ennis’s eerie knowledge of his
donor’s greatest secret forces Cullen to consider the
unimaginable: Is it possible he is witness to a verifiable
incident of transmigration, tangible proof of a human soul?
Or is he witness instead to the miracle of being
transgender? Male and female at once, the glory of one and
the glory of the other, both shining—like a parrotfish,
another miracle of nature, changing gender apace, beside its
glorious, ever-changing hue.
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