Little Fish
Published on 21. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-55152-720-8 (ISBN)
Description
- Casey Plett roared onto the LGBTQ literary scene in 2015 when her debut story collection A Safe Girl to Love (Topside Press) won the Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction. In her second work of fiction and first novel, Casey explores issues of family and identity, in which the narrator Wendy, a thirty-year-old trans woman, comes across evidence that her late, devout Mennonite grandfather may have been trans himself. She is disinclined to believe it at first, but as her life becomes increasingly volatile, she becomes determined to find out the truth of her grandfather's story.
- Casey has an extraordinary ability to create moving and believable characters, which are at the heart of her novel. She is also a versatile writer; in addition to fiction, she is the co-editor of a non-fiction anthology on trans science fiction and fantasy (for Topside Books), and her non-fiction essays have been published widely.
- In Casey Plett's own words: "When I wrote A Safe Girl to Love, it was during a frenzied period of change for me, and the characters in the book were similarly changing, their lives uprooted in every way possible. They were young and moving and transitioning and crying and losing things and falling in love ... I starting writing Little Fish at a period when it seemed like my adult life wasn't going to be changing much, and in fact it looked a lot like it had when I was a kid: broke, in Manitoba, Canada. It felt right, in a lot of different ways, to write about a woman who was more or less in stasis, and whose prognosis for the future wasn't too different from her past, even as her life is burning down all around her."
- Advance blurb confirmed by Meredith Russo, the acclaimed trans author of the YA novel If I Was Your Girl (winner of a 2017 ALA Stonewall Book Award).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
392 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55152-720-8 (9781551527208)
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Casey Plett is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning short story collection A Safe Girl to Love and co-editor of the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. She wrote a column on transitioning for McSweeney's Internet Tendency and her reviews and essays have appeared in such venues as The New York Times ArtsBeat. She is also the publicity and marketing coordinator for the publishing house Biblioasis.