Arcadia / Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam ; translated by Ruth Diver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayamack-Tam, Emmanuelle, author.

Contributor:

Diver, Ruth, translator.

Standardized Title:

Arcadie. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Intersex people--Fiction.

Intersex people.

Gender identity--Fiction.

Gender identity.

Communal living--Fiction.

Communal living.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

360 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Seven Stories Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Farah moves into Liberty House--an arcadia, a community in harmony with nature--at the tender age of six, with her family. The commune's spiritual leader, Arcady, preaches equality, non-violence, anti-speciesism, free love, and uninhibited desire for all, regardless of gender, age, looks, or ability. On her fifteenth birthday, Farah learns she is intersex, and begins to question the confines of gender, and the hypocritical principles those within and outside the confraternity live by. What, Farah asks, is a man or a woman? What is it to be part of a community? What is the endgame for a utopia that exists alongside refugees seeking shelter by the millions and in a society moving ever farther away from nature and its protections. As Liberty House devolves into a dystopia amidst charges of sexual abuse, it starts to look a lot like the larger world, confused in its fears and selfish hedonism. Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam delivers a magisterial novel, a scathing critique of innocence in the contemporary world"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Other Format:

Online version: Bayamack-Tam, Emmanuelle. Arcadia

ISBN:

9781644210536

1644210533

OCLC:

1184681032