Daniel Blacks Perfect Peace is the heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern familys attempt to grapple with their mothers desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, You was born a boy. I made you a girl. But that aint what you was supposed to be. So, from now on, you gon be a boy. Itll be a little strange at first, but youll get used to it, and thisll be over after while. From this point forward, his life becomes a bizarre kaleidoscope of events. Meanwhile, the Peace family is forced to question everything they thought they knew about gender, sexuality, unconditional love, and fulfillment.