A heartrending but ultimately empowering journey of an intersex boy learning to embrace both his body and his identity.

Ashley Bishop lives in Salem, Massachusetts and is descended from the first victim of the Salem witch trials, Bridget Bishop. He's also intersex—born with both male and female genitalia. He's been raised as a boy in accordance with his wishes, but at the beginning of his junior year of high school, Ash gets his first period in front of the entire boys' soccer team. Now his friends and teachers view him differently, and his own mother thinks he should "try being a girl." Gradually, Ash realizes that he needs to stand up for who he really is, or the cost of his silence might destroy his life.