A Dream of a Woman
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Casey Plett’s 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award (Canada). Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, and in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days.
In “Hazel and Christopher,” two childhood friends reconnect as adults after one of them has transitioned. In “Perfect Places,” a woman grapples with undesirability as she navigates fetish play with a man. In “Couldn’t Hear You Talk Anymore,” the narrator reflects on past trauma and what might have been as she recalls tender moments with another trans woman.
An ethereal meditation on partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and love, the stories in A Dream of a Woman buzz with quiet intensity and the intimate complexities of being human.
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
These gorgeous short stories sensitively explore the love, pain, and beauty of the transgender experience. In “Hazel & Christopher,” a young woman reconnects with her high-school crush only to find out he has a secret of his own. The achingly romantic “Floodway” is a sweetly nostalgic story about an almost connection during a late-night drive to nowhere. The stories in Casey Plett’s intimate, funny, and sometimes heartrending collection showcase their trans heroines with all their flaws and glory. Plett isn’t afraid to explore difficult themes like depression, violence, substance abuse, and sex work, and she does so with exquisite delicacy. A Dream of a Woman is an eye-opening and heart-opening read that reveals the complex nature of love in all its forms.