Lost in Parkdale
Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall, House of Anansi, 299 pages,

Two women with security issues fall in and out of love with a transgendered paramedic on the sometimes mean but sadly gentrifying streets of the city

Sep 20, 2009 04:30 AM
Barbara Carey

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/697970

Josh is a transsexual (female to male) who works as a paramedic and wants to shut the door on his past. His violent, alcoholic father terrorized the family before abandoning them, and Josh lives in fear of encountering him among the street people he sometimes attends to on his ambulance runs.