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Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.

"From Hida Viloria, writer and intersex activist, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of life, love, and gender identity as an intact intersex person, as well as a call to action for justice for intersex people. Hida Viloria was raised as a girl but discovered early on that he/r body was different. Unlike most people who are born intersex in the first world--meaning they have genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, and/or chromosomal patterns...

For Mashiro Ichijo, high school is a nightmare--literally! He's forced to take an after school class which plunges him into a dream world where everyone's darkest secrets are exposed! Meanwhile Mashiro is trapped between the affections fo the sweet, man-hating Kureha and the arrogant, aggressive Sou. As the battle rages for his affections, a faceless classmate comes close to finding the key which can free just one student from the nightmare class....