Betty Jo is young, pretty, infatuated with the city and wants to embrace life and love with a nice guy. Her obstacle is that she was once a boy. Betty Jo survives the disasters that follow every girl of her type with cheerful determination. Her perspectives as she moves from childhood to adulthood, surgery and beyond to love are often comic, sometimes insightful if slightly skewed. Her San Francisco trans friends and neighborhood are colorful and exotic. Can Betty become a 'real' woman or at least an 'almost' woman? It seems at last that hope is in vain, but then Betty meets Keith... a 'gets what he wants' kind of man with a keen desire for her. His love and wry humor guide Betty onto a startling path of self-acceptance. 'Almost' is a truthful, sharp, witty and optimistic romp through the vagaries of a shadow life. This is fiction about a woman with a problem that must be faced before it can be transcended in the context of a relationship. About the Author: Lettie Zeste lives in New York City in a tiny apartment overlooking the Hudson River. Houseplants, from all continents, set in pottery ranging from postmodern to Song dynasty, crowd every spare inch. When not writing or teaching, Lettie attends the Metropolitan Opera or American Ballet Theater. Her favorite writer is Jane Austen.