Works of love, death and intersexuality bring a noteworthy edge to the Colorado Book Awards
by Jill Thomas
http://www.csindy.com/colorado/state-lines/Content?oid=1722226 (http://www.csindy.com/colorado/state-lines/Content?oid=1722226)
The Colorado Center for the Book recently announced its Colorado Book Awards finalists, and there's not a single John Denver biography or Cripple Creek history among them.
In fact, they're an impressive, even edgy, bunch.
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Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes, by Gerald N. Callahan, Ph.D. (general nonfiction). Callahan, a biomedical researcher and associate professor at Colorado State University, offers a scientifically based but highly accessible account of people born with physical characteristics, DNA and even genitalia that are neither clearly male nor female, and the fallout of our society's push to fit them into a pink-or-blue world.