Partnership: A Novel about Friendship, Love, Family and Gender Transition (Cascade Book 1) by Stephanie Castle

What happens when a lawyer, the son of a prominent Vancouver family, and a baker, the son of a devoted Catholic family who moved from Italy to Montreal following WWII, team up while going through gender reassignment? This humorous, yet serious, depiction of two families coping with gender dysphoria and the challenges of keeping family relationships intact addresses both legal and church issues. The depiction and commentary on a range of human personalities in the hands of the author are both perceptive and entertaining. The underlying accuracy of this fictional story depends on the author’s personal experience as a transgender woman and as a counsellor in the transgender community in Vancouver. Books in the Cascade series are designed to be believable, informative, educational, and entertaining. This, the first volume in the series, approaches the issue of gender dysphoria with compassion, understanding, dignity, and humour.