Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir (PDF)
$9.99
by Kai Cheng Thom
Fall 2017
Winner of Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers (2017)
29th Annual Lambda Literary Awards for Transgender Fiction, Finalist
2020 PFC-Valley of Words Book Award for Writings for Young Adults (Zubaan South Asian edition), Finalist
In Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir, 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.
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Author: Kai Cheng Thom
Press kit
Price: $9.99 CAD
ISBN: 978-0-9940471-3-7
Cover by Samantha Garritano
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- 194 pages
- Designed in Quebec
“The book is high-energy and full of exciting tension from the outset, and the writing keeps you glued to the page.” —Teen Vogue
“[Fierce Femmes] effortlessly changes the rules, cracking open a space of freedom.” —Montreal Review of Books
“A fairy tale, a love story, and a love letter from one trans woman of colour to other trans women and femmes of colour.” —GUTS
“There are so many parts of this book I love I can’t even say them all.” —Bitch Media
“Kai Cheng Thom’s fantastical and carefully constructed writing brings the knife blade and the high heel together in an engaging, fast-paced fictional—or is it?—memoir.” —The Winnipeg Review
“A captivating tale of betrayal, murder, mysticism, legend and compassion.”
—Autostraddle