A work of fiction,styled like a memoir. It is a Minnesota story about growing up and coming out during the tumultuous decades of the 50's and 60's when wars were ever present in american life. It is a mystery that involves gender identification, sexual identity, dissociative identity disorder, aka multiple personality disorder, and a missing person. It follows the lives of three survivors of sexual violence who begin living as lesbians after spending the majority of their early lives as heterosexuals. Violence to women does have consequences. And to quote a character in the novel,'I think it's the actions of men that creates lesbians.