Synopses & Reviews
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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“11 thoughtful stories exploring the lives of young trans women as they attempt to carve out space for themselves….A collection driven by deeply human, sometimes humorous, but always exquisitely rendered details.” Kirkus Reviews
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“Lambda winner Plett (Little Fish) made her debut with this impressive collection, which now returns to print….These character studies are thoughtful and gorgeous.” Publishers Weekly
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"Plett's stories show kindness at the same time as they show clear-eyed judgment, both of which we need. She writes beautifully about dressing rooms, balcony plants, house parties, the paramount importance of keeping your obligations to your cats. She takes us into the knot of really accurately rendered bonds of old friendships, families, queer solidarities, and she shows us how we can live there." Jeanne Thornton, author of Summer Fun and The Black Emerald
About the Author
Casey Plett is the two-time Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the novel Little Fish and the story collections A Dream of a Woman and A Safe Girl to Love; the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers; and the publisher at LittlePuss Press.