Transgender protagonists drive professor's acclaimed novella
Thu, 05/13/2021 LAWRENCE – For a decade, using the pen names Rose and then R.B. Lemberg, Renee Perelmutter has created a fantastic literary universe concerned with issues and told from the viewpoint of gender fluidity. That growing collection of poems, stories and short novels is set in what the University of Kansas associate professor and director of Jewish studies calls the Birdverse – a universe of humans who worship an avian deity – and it is striking a chord with contemporary readers. For the second time now a Birdverse book, in this case the novella “The Four Profound Weaves,â€...