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Loading... A Dream of a Womanby Casey Plett
   None No current Talk conversations about this book. A Dream of a Woman is startling in its verisimilitude, in the way that its characters feel real, as if you're getting an inside look at real people in all their beautiful strangeness and awfulness and messiness. All of the stories focus on transgender women, and that focus is central to the lives of these characters, but the characters themselves don't treat that as remarkable at all: it's simple a fact of life for them, a fact that often results in great pain and hardship as they interact with the world, but also is the only way they can live authentic lives. This is a beautiful piece of writing. (  ) RandyRasa | Dec 31, 2021 |  no reviews | add a review
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women. Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days. In "Hazel and Christopher," two childhood friends reconnect as adults after one of them has transitioned. In "Perfect Places," a woman grapples with undesirability as she navigates fetish play with a man. In "Couldn't Hear You Talk Anymore," the narrator reflects on her tumultuous life and what might have been as she recalls tender moments with another trans woman. An ethereal meditation on partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and love, the stories in A Dream of a Woman buzz with quiet intensity and the intimate complexities of being human. No library descriptions found. |
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