“Wo-Man” (ePub)

This profoundly moving nonfiction story carries the reader along from the drastic to the dreamful. The outcome of the authors trials and tribulations, searching for a way out of tragic moments and situations in a small third-world countrythanks to her indomitable faith and will to surviveis just this side of miraculous because fighting was the only thing that arose to protect her life.

This is the true story of a Guyanese village child raised by a hostile family in a society intolerant of her love preference. Born differently, the author recalls feeling miscast, wrong, and other than her body. She is and was always meant to be wo-man. Her family of origin treated her like chattel, rejecting her emotionally but compounding her misery with forced child labor. There are horrific scenes of her alcoholic father beating her mother and threatening her with death. Things get worse before getting better. She was subjected to repeated episodes of rape, beatings, and burns by neighborhood men. After numerous efforts to escape from the nightmare clutches of abuse, rape, and humiliation while trying to find her true self, Veemala made her way to the United States of America.

The turning point of her journey took place in immigration court, where a federal judge made a decision on her political asylum claim because of intolerance and life-threatening bigotry in her homeland. As she settled with relatives in New York, she spread her wings and learned to fly. Through education and sheer determination, she progressed from being a beautician to having a college degree to being a surgical technologist and much more. There are many new romantic and erotic encounters along the way. Vemaala Persaud, now a well-known motivational speaker and a source of inspiration to others, is a living role model for overcoming adversity and seizing the day

Do you want to know about her sex life and erotic experiences? Do you want to find out who she is; why was she subjected to the pain and anguish; how and why did she endure every pain, beating, and rape; where she is and what shes become? Read the book to find out more.