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The call-out : a novel in rhyme / Cat Fitzpatrick.

by Fitzpatrick, Cat.

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Seven Stories Press, 2022.

Transgender women -- Fiction.

Lesbians -- Fiction.

Queer culture -- Fiction.

Queer community -- Fiction.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.

9781644212332 (trade pbk.)

185 p. ; 26 cm.

"Anvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer, mostly trans women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn. Visiting all the fixtures of fashionable 21st century queer society-picnics, literary readings, health conferences, drag shows, punk houses, community accountability processes, Grindr hookups -- The Call-Out also engages with pressing questions around economic precarity, sexual consent, racism in queer spaces, and feminist theory, in the service of asking what it takes to build, or destroy, a marginalized community. A novel written in verse, The Call-Out recalls the Russian literary classic Eugene Onegin, but instead of 19th century Russian aristocrats crudely solved their disagreements with pistols, the participants in this rhyming drama have developed a more refined weapon, the online call-out, a cancel-culture staple. In this passionate tangle of modern relationships, where a barbed tweet can be as dangerous as the narrator's bon-mots, Cat Fitzpatrick has fashioned a modern novel of manners that gives readers access to a vibrant cultural underground"--Provided by publisher.

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, 2023.

2SLGBTQIA+ fiction.

Novels in verse.

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