""So you think you're a woman?" Dr. Beaugrand's question had destabilized Laurent V. A lump in his throat prevented him from uttering the slightest hint of an answer. Dressed in velvet trousers and a navy sweater, Laurent was acutely aware that he did not look like the one he had always been convinced he was.
Yet he would never forget that day, the first in a journey that would make him, he hoped, a singular being, the only Parisian journalist who had been a soldier in the Swiss army. A journey that would also take him to faraway lands. Laure Viel's story is about transsexuality without taboos or pathos. There is no glitter in this journey either, but a quest for oneself, where introspection does not forbid self-mockery.
