Transmutation: Stories

By: Alex DiFrancesco

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Synopsis: Transgressive, transformative short stories that explore the margins of trans lives.Building on the success of All City, here is a wry, and at the same time dark and risk-taking, story collection from author (and baker) Alex DiFrancesco that pushes the boundaries of transgender awareness and filial bonds. Here is the hate between 16-year-old Junie, who is transitioning, and their mom's boyfriend Chad when the family moves into Chad's house on Lake Erie. And here is the love being tested between Sawyer and his dad, who named his boat after his child and resists changing it from Sara to Sawyer now. There is DiFrancesco's willingness to enter lands that are violent and comfortless in some of these stories, testing the limits of what it means to be human, sometimes returning stronger and wiser and sometimes not returning at all as their characters surge forward into unknown spaces.DiFrancesco's first novel All City (Seven Stories 2019) was praised by Publishers Weekly as a "loving, grieving warning [that] thoughtfully traces the resilience, fragility, and joy of precarious communities in an immediate, compassionate voice." All City was one of BookRiot's "Best Post-Apocalyptic Books of 2019," Entropy Mag's "Best of 2019," and Largehearted Boy's "Favorite Novels of 2019." It was a finalist for the 2019 Ohioana Book Award for Fiction.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 144 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781644210673
Related ISBNs:: 9781644210666
Publisher:: Seven Stories Press
Date of Addition:: 06/01/21
Copyrighted By:: Alex DiFrancesco
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Horror, Literature and Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.

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