Author: Hazel Jane Plante
ISBN: 9780994047199 (print)
ISBN: 9781999058814 (EPUB)
ISBN: 9781998898077 (PDF)
Cover design by LOKI
Illustrations by Onjana Yawnghwe
- Papberback, 200 pages
- Printed in Quebec
- Publication date: October 7, 2019
“Little Blue Encyclopedia understands perfectly how pop culture — and pop culture fandom — 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.”
—Emily 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.”
—Nour Abi Nakhoul, Quill & Quire, starred review
”Hazel Jane Plante’s quirky, queer debut destined to be a cult classic.”
—Sue Carter, Toronto Star
“An exquisite, kaleidoscopic novel bursting with ache and delight.”
—Zoey Leigh Peterson, author of Scotia Bank Giller Prize longlisted novel Next Year, For Sure
“Little 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.”
—Trish Salah, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and author of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1
