Terry Dactyl / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans women--Fiction.

Trans women.

Nightlife--Fiction.

Nightlife.

Sexual minority culture--Fiction.

Sexual minority culture.

Art museums--Employees--Fiction.

Art museums.

Belonging (Social psychology)--Fiction.

Belonging (Social psychology).

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

Seattle (Wash.)--Fiction.

Seattle (Wash.).

LGBTQ+ culture.

LGBTQ+ people.

Genre:

Queer fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Novels.

LGBTQ+ fiction

Physical Description:

262 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2025.

Summary:

"From iconic author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore comes a breathless search for intimacy and connection, from club culture to the art world, from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19. Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of dancing queens and late-night house parties just as the AIDS crisis ravages their world. After moving to New York City, Terry finds a new family among gender-bending club kids bonded by pageantry and drugs, fiercely loyal and unapologetic. She lands a job at a Soho gallery, where, after partying all night, she spends her days bringing club culture to the elite art world. Twenty years later, in a panic during the COVID-19 lockdown, Terry returns to a Seattle stifled by gentrification and pandemic isolation until resistance erupts following the murder of George Floyd, and her search for community ignites once again. In propulsive, intoxicating prose, Terry Dactyl traces an extraordinary journey from adolescence to adulthood, delivering a vital portrait of queer identity in all its peril and possibility"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein. Terry Dactyl

ISBN:

9781566897419

1566897416

OCLC:

1499213191