Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian

I really like Bohjalian. I picked this up because his new book was checked out, AGAIN. Curses. Anyway, it doesn't disappoint. This one's about a MTF transsexual who meets a woman the summer before his operation, they fall in love, and stay together after he becomes she. The girlfriend has a child and an ex-husband, and Bohjalian switches between all four points of view, exploring gender, sexuality, love, and tolerance. Also, lots of his books take place in Vermont and have an appealing (to me, anyway) crunchy-granola quality. Here, the father and daughter work for NPR.
I like the pacing of Bohjalian's books. He always does the alternate viewpoints thing, and it lends a little suspense to their storylines. He does have a slight tendency to throw in sentences like "I had no way of knowing that x would cause y," but not enough for it to be annoying. The prose feels relaxed, but always like it's leading somewhere (though it often ends up somewhere else). He tells stories of families, friends, towns, first on the cusp of falling apart, then broken, then beginning, slowly, to rebuild themselves. Good Stuff.