To All The Men That I Lied

It was the year 2001 and Athira just started her new life and had a job as secretary at this lavish clubhouse. She had the hard time at work and her encounter with Isham was a much relieving escape from her horrible boss. She lived her love life like other people albeit the secret she tried to erase and forbid for his lover to discover. When finally she gave in to her own fiery desire and made her unravelled the truth about her identity, she was done. She wanted to fight back as losing the love of her life wasn't the option. To win him back, she had to devise a plan and lie again another man, not ordinary one but the supreme religious leader of the country.

In this memoir, Athira recount her gruelling journey in dating, getting job and renting house with her fabricated identity during her early transitioning years. It is told with much intimacy, elation and tense counting on every minute the danger looms.

The sharing is hoped to enlighten the ordeal of trans people who live in the other side of the world, Malaysia with the predominantly Muslim population who want to reclaim their difference but instead is forced to hide under the illegal identity for sake of survival