Rebirth

A husband wakes up one morning to find that everything below his waist has become a woman's - hips, anatomy, the way he sits down, the way he walks - while everything above the waist is still him.Mike is thirty-six, twelve years with Emily, an account manager job at Harmon & Associates, off and on trying for a child. He wakes up with the wrong body under the sheets from the navel down. The jeans don't button. The sneakers don't fit. He drives to work in an untucked dress shirt and runs the Aldermere deck in his head and tells himself it'll pass.It doesn't pass. He learns to sit on a chair differently. He learns what a seam does. The doctor is no help. Emily catches on slowly and then all at once, and what she does with it is its own small quiet shock. They had a window. They were timing it without saying so.The change above the waist comes later, and when it comes it comes in slowly. By then the marriage has had to learn things about itself that twelve years of regular life never asked it to.Rebirth is a deeply embodied transformation novel about a man whose body will not stop becoming someone else - and a marriage that has to figure out, day by day, what it is now.