Abstract
Rough Paradise is a unique and moving novella about identity and growing up Intersex in a violent, unwelcoming, heteronormative world. Terry Tomey was born with an Intersex condition, which wreaks havoc with his puberty. He is on the verge of suicide when he meets Darla, the only person who accepts Terry and who is going through a crisis of her own. Both incur the wrath of the community and their families when they fall in love and begin to explore their queer sexuality.