{"id":22297,"date":"2016-04-30T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=22297"},"modified":"2024-12-14T07:15:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T12:15:32","slug":"small-beauty","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/fr\/products\/small-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Autaire: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littleqing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jia qing wilson-yang<\/a><br \/>\nPrice: $16.95<br \/>\nISBN: 978-0-9940471-2-0<\/p>\n<p>Cover by LOKI Design<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paperback, 12.8 x 20 x 1.1 cm<\/li>\n<li>176 pages<\/li>\n<li>233 grams<\/li>\n<li>Printed in Quebec<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cycling through time, points of view, and rural and city life, the novel introduces us to Mei\u2019s community in fictional Dundurn and Herbertsville, loosely based on Southern Ontario places: Annette and Connie, other Asian trans women from the drop-ins; Sandy, Mei\u2019s older cousin and constant (if aggressive) support; Diane, an older lesbian with a pick-up and secret links to Mei\u2019s blood family; and Nelson, a presence lost before found, whose story is told in pictures sewn into a suitcase. Interspersed with one culminating night-time lake scene, the book carries us through these stories and towards their completion as the frustrating, necessary web that keeps Mei attached to the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiterature needs <em>Small Beauty<\/em>.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/tetheredbyletters.com\/book-review-small-beauty-by-jia-qing-wilson-yang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tethered by Letters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA quiet, gorgeous meditation on grief, race, and community, Wilson-Yang\u2019s writing more than delivers on the title\u2019s promise.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lambdaliterary.org\/reviews\/05\/09\/small-beauty-by-jia-qing-wilson-yang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lambda Literary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilson-Yang\u2019s writing is uncommon, combining a rare talent for poetic description with a solid grasp on the techniques of prose.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/plenitudemagazine.ca\/coming-home-in-small-beauty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plenitude<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the most gorgeous writing trans lit has been blessed with.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/winnipegreview.com\/2016\/07\/small-beauty-by-jia-qing-wilson-yang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Winnipeg Review <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilson-Yang deftly weaves and unweaves the threads of narrative tropes that have come to dominate the telling of the stories of trans women, lesbians, migrants, and Chinese North Americans.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autostraddle.com\/small-beauty-is-a-big-deal-for-queer-lit-and-trans-girls-an-interview-with-author-jia-qing-wilson-yang-348489\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Autostraddle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Small Beauty<\/em>\u2019s quiet power is well on its way to much-deserved acclaim.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/mtlreviewofbooks.ca\/reviews\/small-beauty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montreal Review of Books <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvocative of classic Canadiana, Wilson-Yang\u2019s book offers a fresh revisioning of the settler\/colonial gothic, with one foot in a magic realist lyric and the other in regionalist gritlit.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/velamag.com\/trish-salahs-six-debut-novels-by-trans-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vela Magazine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Winner of 29th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction<br \/>\n2016 Writers\u2019 Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers, Finalist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Small Beauty<\/i> tells the story of Mei, a mixed race trans woman managing the death of her cousin, the ways she contorts to navigate racism and transphobia, and her desire for community as she takes an opportunity to leave the city and revisit a town from her family&#8217;s past, where she discovers queer family history while parsing through her own anger and trauma.<\/p>\n<p>Also available from <a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/small-beauty\/id1462031201?ls=1\">Apple Books<\/a>et <a href=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/fr\/shop\/digital-books\/small-beauty-ebook\/\">from our website as an EPUB<\/a>, and as a <a href=\"https:\/\/metonymypress.com\/fr\/shop\/digital-books\/small-beauty-pdf\/\">PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Shop orders can be sent to addresses within Canada and the US only. 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