Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender

"Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender," by Nick Krieger. Beacon Press, 216 pages, $15 paper.

Life was nice enough for Nina - she moved in a circle of A-list San Francisco lesbians, hanging out with wealthy and sporty women, identifying as a dyke. But when she returned to the Bay Area after a winter bumming around Wyoming with her snowboarding brother, she moved into a cheap room in a Castro apartment. Immersed in the culture of unconventional queers - including a roommate in transition - she began to question her physical and emotional self-identity. Krieger 's journey …