“Little Blue Encyclopedia understands perfectly how pop culture ā and pop culture fandom ā can become bound up in our lives inextricably. As the narrator assembles her encyclopedia, memories of Vivian when she was alive start to trickle into the text. Sometimes the narrator is conscious of those memories taking over, and sometimes it happens almost without her having to try.”
āEmily St. James, Vox
“Grief is a process that encompasses the death of the past and of future possibility. Despite this, Little Blue Encyclopedia is an undeniably optimistic text, one that takes up mournful subject matter and suggests ways it can be worked through.”
āNour Abi Nakhoul, Quill & Quire, starred review
āHazel Jane Planteās quirky, queer debut destined to be a cult classic.ā
āSue Carter, Toronto Star
“An exquisite, kaleidoscopic novel bursting with ache and delight.”
āZoey Leigh Peterson, author of Scotia Bank Giller Prize longlisted novel Next Year, For Sure
āLittle Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) is gorgeously whimsical, inspired, odd and anguished, a tale of longing between trans women, it is also a magical ekphrasis, a tender portrait of where a woman was through a melancholy anatomy of the imaginary world she loved. Reminiscent of early Jeanette Winterson, but also utterly innovative, this is a love letter to heart break and to art as its only, imperfect salve.ā
āTrish Salah, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and author of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1
Author: Hazel Jane Plante
Cover design by LOKI
Illustrations by Onjana Yawnghwe
