Metonymy author jia qing wilson-yang returns to Guelph to launch her first novel, Small Beauty. Join us at Silence Sounds on Saturday, May 14th after you finish up at the market. A live reading will be followed by a book signing and general hanging out.
Stop by the Metonymy Press table at the fourth Howl! activist art fair in collaboration with Popolo Press, featuring posters, prints, zines, music and other artworks created within the context of social justice struggles.
jia qing wilson-yang wanted Small Beauty to be a trans narrative that caught readers off guard: “A lot of the things that I’ve read about and by trans women have cities as such a huge focus. And I wanted to have some sort of reflection of us in other places.” She also “wanted to have a book that wasn’t really about being trans or coming out, but where being a trans woman was still central to what was happening in the book.”
So we’ve been calling She Is Sitting in the Night a collaboration, but if it was that it was largely retroactive—a conversation that started in part before I was born. Literally. Ruth West started working on Thea’s Tarot when I was not yet a zygote, a fact that she is happy to emphasize with phrases like “back when dirt was new,” “when god was a girl, and “you don’t understand because you’re not old enough.”