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Still life : a novel / Katherine Packert Burke
Van Pelt - New Book Display PS3602.U755237 S75 2024
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burke, Katherine Packert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trans people--Fiction.
- Trans people.
- Sexual minorities--Fiction.
- Sexual minorities.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Authors--Fiction.
- Authors.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- Queer fiction.
- LGBTQ+ fiction
- Physical Description:
- 268 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024
- Summary:
- Everything in Edith's life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, chronicling the lives of three women -- one cis, two trans, all forever entwined. Edith was a bumbling "boy" pre-transition, in love with Tessa, enamored by Val, and drowning in Boston. She and Tessa called each other Joni and Joan, an homage to the musical backdrop of their fledgling adulthood. When Edith decides to leave behind the East Coast for graduate school, she begins a yearslong journey away from the person she loves most and toward a hazy new understanding of who she will become.
- ISBN:
- 9781324076360
- 1324076364
- OCLC:
- 1454598229
- Publisher Number:
- 90100294140
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