Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

Pocketbok, 188 sidor

Publicerades 14 november 2016 av Metonymy Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-9940471-3-7

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock, Dearly blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered, the protagonist joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes, violent johns, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong, she …

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock, Dearly blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered, the protagonist joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes, violent johns, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family.

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No Never recenserade Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars av Kai Cheng Thom

Guess I needed some violence in my reading

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This book absolutely amazed me, right from the first chapter talking about how we trannies need some more dangerous stories. It's really quite brutal in its depictions of the gang violence, and didn't feel like it pulled punches elsewhere, but I really enjoyed the emotions and the personal growth in shitty conditions and all the different femmes depicted in this book (most of whom remind me of at least one woman I have the honor of knowing in my own chaotic life). Gonna read more of Kai Cheng Thoms books and keep recommending this one to my friends, or just go on reading the first chapter to people (3/3 success on recommendations so far).