Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir

by Kai Cheng Thom

Paperback, 2016

Status

Available

Publication

Metonymy Press (2016), 200 pages

Description

Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. LGBTQIA+ (Fiction.) HTML: At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age. A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhoodâ??and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. But when disaster strikes, can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart? Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member kylekatz
2019. This book delivered what I want in a trans femme revenge fantasy; a girl gang killing scumbag men, a trans femme goddess/ancestor watching over them, a ghost, a potential love story, and a strong heroine who rejected the easy answer of the love story to seek further adventures. Somehow I
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didn’t love it as much as I felt I should have. It felt glib and surface-y. It didn’t reach a satisfying emotional depth somehow. But still a good read.
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LibraryThing member LibroLindsay
I loved the inclusion of the fantastical elements.
LibraryThing member Bodagirl
I completely agree with the many reviews that point out the important stories that are being told with this novel and I loved the mixing of narrative genres, with letters and poetry being tossed in with the prose.
However, I'm struggling with the fairy tale magical realism of this fictionalized
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memoir. I kept trying to figure out real-world correlations, mainly geographical and the mermaid (was it a dolphin, a dead body, or just a metaphor?), to the story. I know that it is NOT the point of this book, but at any lagging point, my mind started to try to puzzle it out. The book also didn't stick with me after I put it down or after I finished it.
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Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2017)

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2016-11-15

Physical description

200 p.; 5.25 inches

ISBN

0994047134 / 9780994047137

Local notes

autobiography
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