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This was a lot of fun. I was nervous at first about reading a fictionalized memoir where the author tells you right in the title that the book will be full of lies, but it reads like a fantasy that happens to follow the arc of someone's real life. There are mermaids and a ghost and a lot of kung-fu fighting.
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is the story of a trans girl who runs away from home to give herself the life she wants to live. She falls in with a girl gang of femmes who want to make th ...more
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is the story of a trans girl who runs away from home to give herself the life she wants to live. She falls in with a girl gang of femmes who want to make th ...more
Trans femmes and the tensions between mutual aid and violent resistance. Making men afraid, bashing back. Also, magic. So great.
This book counts towards the Book Riot Read Harder 2019 challenge task #18: a novel by a trans or non-binary author
Best thing I’ve read in a LONG time. I found myself stopping and going slow so that it wouldn’t be over.
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