Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir
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Narrated by:
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Adri Almeida
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By:
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Kai Cheng Thom
About this listen
At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age.
A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood - and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. But when disaster strikes, can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?
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- Fatima Lopez
- 10-05-23
What a way of writing a memoir
This is a unique way of writing a memoir.
It kind of reminded me of " La loca de la casa", by Rosa Montero, with the mix of reality and fantasy, the unrelabiality of the narrator... but with a harder subject matter.
I am googling the author to know more righr now.
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- Sebrina Autumn Calkins
- 19-10-23
Utterly Exquisite
CW: A lot, my memory is shocking, but Self Harm, Graphic Violence, Transphobia, Police Brutality
I might have to give up my conviction that perfection doesn't exist.
I just consumed the audiobook in one sitting and was just left sobbing at the beauty of the journey, the bravery of the author, and simply just how magical and viscerally meaningful reading this was, especially today.
I couldn't put it down. I felt every emotion I would ever want sheiks reading. I am truly in awe.
If Hollywood and beyond lost their minds for Sarah by JT LeRoy (Laura Albert), the world and all existence need to give Kai Cheng Thom her fucking flowers. (I actually think Sarah is a phenomenal novel, despite all the everything around it. I also have empathy for Albert, but the lack of accountability isn't OK).
I'm just stunned. I wish I could be more articulate.
The magic realism moments are wonderful and strange. There is such heart and truth in the parts that happened and those that didn't. The specifics don't matter. The darkness and visceral violence are brutal. The darkness and might throughout the book are equally explored and held up for inspection.
I really need to read everything else by this author and then read this again because this was everything I needed. Bloody brilliant!
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