Period Taoist) and Ye Chun

and Ye Chun

It wasn't until college that Pidgeon pieced together the puzzle of their identity: they'd been born intersex but raised as a girl

but also flawed

and educators such as Bessie Smith

Period Taoist) and Ye ChunThe stunning conclusion to Dennis Cooper's five book cycle, Period earned its author the accolade "a disquieting genius" by Vanity Fair and praise for his "elegant prose and literary lawlessness" by The New York Times. The culmination of Cooper's explorations into sex and death, youth culture, and the search for the ineffable object of desire, Period is a breathtaking, mesmerizing final statement to the five book cycle it completes. Cooper has taken