A Safe Girl to Love

Casey Plett

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·        We are pleased to bring back into print Casey Plett’s debut story collection A Safe Girl to Love, first published in 2014 by Topside Press. (FSG recently reissued another former Topside title, Nevada by Imogen Binnie, to great acclaim.)  A Safe Girl to Love won a Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction, the first of two that Casey has won. This is the third book by Casey that we have published, following Little Fish (2017, Lambda Literary Award winner) and A Dream of a Woman (2021, Publishing Triangle Award for Transgender Literature finalist and longlisted for the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize).

·        A Safe Girl to Love was the first in what Casey describes as a trilogy of books on the messy, complicated lives of transgender women. In this collection, the women protagonists are all in their twenties who have recently transitioned and dealing with issues of sex, love, friendship, harassment, friends, and family (and in Casey’s words, “Mennonite stuff”).

·        An example of the book’s lived-in feel is the story “Not Bleak,” in which Carla is a trans woman who works as a bookstore manager and lives with a long-term open partner, Liam. They often host young queer kids at their home, many of whom have been kicked out by their families. One of these kids, Zeke, is a cis girl who has not decided whether to transition or not. A few days later, Liam realizes their passports have been stolen, among other items. They confront Zeke over it, but Zeke denies that she was involved. But then Zeke starts hanging out at Carla’s bookstore, where she tells Carla that she plans to visit her ill Mennonite grandfather as a boy, and wants Carla to come pose as his girlfriend, to which Carla agrees. The story ultimately is about the messy parameters of queer friendship and human behaviour.

·         In the author’s own words: “When I wrote A Safe Girl to Love, I had just transitioned, had moved away from New York, and was at a very chaotic and rambling time in my early twenties. Not to be dark about it, but I wasn’t sure how long I was going to live at that point in my life and I knew I wanted to write this thing. So I think I can say I wrote with a lot of franticness and urgency.”

·        Trivia: A Safe Girl to Love was one of the contraband books discovered in Chelsea Manning’s cell in 2015 for which she was sent into solitary confinement.

·        Casey is writing an afterword for this new edition, in which she explores the conditions during which she wrote the book, and how she feels about it now, nine years after it was first published.

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 that growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating, or sad, but will never 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.

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Other Women

Twenty Hot Tips To Shopping Success

How Old Are You Anyway?

How To Stay Friends

Lizzy & Annie

Real Equality (A Manifesto)

Portland, Oregon

Not Bleak

A Carried Ocean Breeze

Winning

Youth

Afterword

Sujets

• LGBTQ
• World Literature
• Literary
• LGBTQ+
• Women
• Canadá
• Transgender
• Literature
• Woman
• 21st Century
• The Women
• Canada
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Date de parution: 04 avril 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781551529141
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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