"TRANSMONTANA is the story of Montana hunter and county attorney Robert Zenker’s transition from a male, popularly elected public official to a modern, professional woman. Robert Zenker was a married man and father of two, boxed in the psychologically complicated, emotionally taut web of secrecy, shame, fear, guilt, doubt and ambiguity of self of a transsexual deeply in denial.
Roberta inhabited that body and all the accouterments of the life of a man in Montana for nearly fifty years before her transition from man to woman in 2007. The remarkable story of her emerging from her box is a complex, courageous and sometimes dangerous journey involving not only physical transition, but also alcohol recovery and the result of both – a spiritual transformation.
I liked the review by Marsha Caissey: "Dealing with emotional pain is difficult for anyone, and Bobbie Zenker chose to drown demons in alcohol but found her way to sobriety and to the most difficult of admissions: truth of one's self. Her account of the almost science-fiction like difficulties encountered by people trying to transition from their assigned gender at birth to their true inner gender was so poignantly told one may feel her grief of loss and joys of discovery rising from the pages.
What I treasure so much is the candor of which she writes concerning her dear ex-spouse, Peggy, of whom she is still friends and the nearly unbearable, yet necessary, split they had to endure so each could live the life they needed to live. As I was once told, "sometimes love just is not enough.""
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