The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group — Tama Janowitz

She's Pamela Trowel, a New Yorker, single and singular: holed up in her swampy basement apartment when she isn't peddling guns and ammo ads for Hunter's World magazine. Pamela attracts Manhattan's wrongest kind of men: the cinematographer-exhibitionist Alby; her masochistic, creepy, boss-of-all-bosses Daniel; her cross-dressing psychiatrist Martin, who conducts his pracice in a bar. Pamela is batting zero - until she meets Abdhul, a wise your urchin who follows her home from a pizza parlor, and worms his way into her heart. Abdhul has no past and Pamela has no future, so together they pick up and run - form her bosses, the authorities, and New York. But when Abdhul disppears, Pamela is forced to return to Manhattan, disguised as a man. At last, she experiences the twisted city from the other side of the gender fence, discovering wild, unexpected popularity, and fierce, abiding mother love. The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group is Tama Janowitz's tour de force - a hilarious romp through the curiousity of motherhood, sexual identity, and family values in the 1990s.