Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

Available in print (for customers living in Canada and in the US), PDF (worldwide, except for South Asia), and EPUB (worldwide, except for South Asia).

by Kai Cheng Thom

Fall 2016

Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf book club pick
Winner of Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers
Finaliste, prix Lambda Literary de la fiction transgenre
PFC-Valley of Words Book Award for Writings for Young Adults, Finalist

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true, coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who make their home in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles.

Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock, she blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered, our protagonist joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes, violent johns, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family.

Kai Cheng Thom is an award-winning writer, performer, lasagna lover, and wicked witch based in Toronto, unceded Indigenous territory. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is her first novel.