Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir

By: Kai Cheng Thom

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Paperback | 21 March 2019

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194 Pages

Age
13 - 18

Grade
8+

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26.7 x 16.5 x 5.5

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Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian and Asian American Studies. Young Adult. FIERCE FEMMES AND NOTORIOUS LIARS: A DANGEROUS TRANS GIRL'S CONFABULOUS MEMOIR is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents' abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock, the protagonist blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. When one of their number is brutally murdered, she joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes, violent johns, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. But when things go terribly wrong, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family.

Industry Reviews

"Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars seeks to shatter the
traditional transgender memoir narrative and turn it on its head. The book is high-energy and full of exciting tension from the outset, and the writing keeps you glued to the page." -Britni de la Cretaz, Teen Vogue
"Thom's novel is able to get at the truth of how trans femmes of color, and perhaps trans femmes and trans women generally, build and maintain
communities without reducing those experiences to statistics, to straightforward politics, or even to 'factual' generic conventions of autobiography. Instead, she confabulates, eschewing conventions which demand the truth of the matter." -Avery Everhart, Michigan Quarterly Review

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