The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff

[Jane B]

I enjoyed The 19th Wife so was interested to read another of David Ebershoff's books. This was his first and is loosely based on the story of Einar Wegener who in 1931 was the first man to undergo sex reassignment surgery. Ebershoff in the Danish Girl tackles the indefinable nature of love and relationships through the story of a husband and wife living through the husband's transition from dressing as a woman to finally going through sex reassignment surgery and becoming Lili Elbe. I found this book to be a delicately and poetically written story of untold empathy and love.