I hadn't really been around trans folks much at all before moving to Minneapolis, and that's one of many areas that I still have a lot of room to grow in my knowledge of and empathy toward. Lauren Theisen, who's trans and writes for Deadspin, recommended this book, and it's great and unsettling and beautiful and heartbreaking and all that. Casey Plett wrote this collection of stories, which is set in many different places across our great continent, from Portland to Winnipeg to what's probably Fargo (uncredited) to Brooklyn, and shit is hard everywhere for trans people. Sex is brutal even when that's not what they want, and work sucks, and even when you're trying to carve out a little community with like-minded people, a lot of those people are terrible. And parents can be awful, too.
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