A Safe Girl to Love

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn, featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love.These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating, or sad, but never will it be predictable. New Read [ A Safe Girl to Love ] Author [ Casey Plett ] – kino-fada.fr You d think that with how much I read this would be old hat by now, but I always get a little bit anxious when a friend publishes something What if it isn t good What if I don t like it How do you walk that line between supporting their work and wanting to be honest about your opinion of their work I ve lost a lot of sleep over how to review books of this sort, that complex dance of criticism, the well i liked this aspect, but this and this felt like they were superfluous waltz of carefull You d think that with how much I read this would be old hat by now, but I always get a little bit a...Oh my god, I FUCKING LOVED THIS BOOK Full review to come Here s the review Around this time last year, I read an amazing debut short story collection by Nancy Jo Cullen that I raved about, saying it was the best fiction I d read all year There must be something in the air in late July, because I just read Winnipegger Casey Plett s book A Safe Girl to Love also a debut short story collection and I just fucking loved it In fact, both books share a keen sense of place, an authentic, diverse hum Oh my god, I FUCKING LOVED THIS BOOK Full review to come Here s the review Around this time last year, I read an amazing debut short story collection by Nancy Jo Cullen that I raved about, saying it was the best fiction I d read all year There must be something in the air in late July, because I just read Winnipegger Casey Plett s book A Safe Girl to Love also a debut short story collection and I just fucking loved it In fact, bo...While this book attempts to convey the diversity of transfeminine experience, it doesn t quite get there The author seemed to have an incapacity to write outside of their own experience Like I m pretty sure that transfeminine individuals do not universally work in book stores, attend university in some capacity, and love getting their nipples abused after getting sloshed Geez The narrators shared a very similar, even indistinguishable voice.I m not sure what the point was of the quirky gra While this book attempts to convey the diversity of transfeminine experience, it doesn t quite get there The author seemed to have an incapacity to write outside of their own experience Like I m pretty sure th...pros ownvoices short story collection where every story has a trans woman main character some are lesbian, some are bi, some are straight, so there s a variety some stories also have trans side characters or other queer friends one story had a mother daughter pair where both of them were trans and that was nice the stories also went into all kinds of trans experiences.cons this book was just reall...I cannot for the life of me remember who recommended this book to me, but I m glad I got it It s a collection of short stories all featuring trans main characters The majority of the stories are set in various parts of Canada, New York City or the Pacific Northwest, all places I believe that author has also lived These are stories of relationships, some sexy, some messy, most complicated relationships with lovers, exes, parents, friends, pets and cities My favorite story was the longest one I cannot for the life of me remember who recommende...Some of the tightest most readable strongly voiced prose I ve read in a long time Lots of everyday kinky sex, which I don t actually see that often in queer lit Highlights for me included the lezzie ones, the one where the cat talks, and the one with the Mennonite grandpa passport theft.I wanted to love this book but I mostly just got bored.This is my favorite collection of short fiction.I had been meaning to read this for a while and finally got around to it I think the main reason it took so long was because I have an aversion at this point to stories where the central struggles are around being trans and the couple stories I opened up to when looking this over in 2015 indicated that pretty much every story was like a different intro to trans story Some of the stories in this book are like that the trans girlfriends getting drunk too much who face street harrassment story, I had been meaning to read this for a while and finally got around to it I think the main reason it took so long was because I have an aversion at this point to stories where the central struggles are around being trans and the couple stories I opened up to when looking this over in 2015 indicated that pretty much every story was like a different intro to trans story Some of the stories in this book are like that the trans girlfriends getting drunk too much who face street harrassment story, the you are going to old navy alone and sad story I think this is a great book to read and to offer people if you are early in transition or are new to literature about trans people not written by Anne Carson or Maggie Nelson It is homey, homely, gritty , Michelle Tea inspired, non highfalutin fiction centered around a lot of trans girl protagonists who are varying levels of punk and varying levels of self aware It s not quite Valencia because nobody s actually that self...After reading this, i held it to my chest with my arms crossed over it, thinking about the inevitable re readings of it i would do Casey Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you.

• English
• 16 April 2017
Casey Plett
• Paperback
• 229 pages
• 1627290052
• Casey Plett
• A Safe Girl to Love