Inconvenient Truths — Nancy Cole

Amanda Newly is a rather unique college student. Bright and intelligent, she excels in a discipline where most students are simply happy to survive. At the restaurant where she works her proficiency and charm earn her unrivaled tips and praise. Socially she is the glue that holds her friends together. To the world Amanda presents the very image of a young woman on the verge of making all her dreams come true. Holding her back from achieving this goal is a past out of sync with her image as a young coed, for the girl everyone knows as Amanda started life as Andrew Newly. In many ways she still is very male, an inconvenient truth Amanda must hide behind a vale of lies as she struggles to reconcile her past with her future, a past that threatens to destroy her chances achieving. Amanda's journey difficult and contentious as she steps outside the accepted norms used to define who and what we are in order to discover not only what is right for her, but to build a new life for herself.