A Safe Girl To Love

by Casey Plett

Paperback, 2014

Status

Checked out

Genres

Publication

Topside Press (2014), 244 pages

Description

"A new edition of the acclaimed debut story collection by two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Plett. By the author of Little Fish and A Dream of a Woman:eleven unique short stories featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love in settings ranging from a rural Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn. These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating, or sad, but never will it be predictable. A Safe Girl to Love, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction, was first published in 2014. Now back in print after a long absence, this new edition includes an afterword by the author."--… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member elenaj

The stories in this collection are a bit uneven, but I liked them more and more as I got further in. Many of them seem oddly dated by virtue of being set perhaps 10 years ago. The interrelated world, where the protagonist of one story shows up as a minor character or in the background of another

story, gives a nice effect, although it was a little forced at points.

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LibraryThing member kylekatz

2014. Bleak, but beautiful stories of trans women trying to survive and find love. There’s an undertow of darkness that is impossible to escape, but you can swim with it instead of drowning, for a while anyway.

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Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2015)

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

2014-05-01

Physical description

244 p.; 5.5 inches

ISBN

1627290052 / 9781627290050

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