The thread all about good books

Just glancing at this thread, I thought it said, "The thread all about good looks".

Ah, well.

Although not really a book, it is still a good read.

M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang

 Spoiler

The play was inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly. The first act introduces the main character, Rene Gallimard, who is a civil servant attached to the French embassy in China. He falls in love with a beautiful Chinese opera diva, Song Liling, who is actually a man masquerading as a woman. In traditional Beijing opera, females were banned from the stage; all female roles were played by males.

Won't reveal more than that. I did a large report on it for school, but it is still a good and interesting read, imo. Deals with stereotypes between Western and Eastern culture along with gender roles and possibly inversion as well as homosexuality.