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Pretend it's my body : stories / Luke Dani Blue.

by Blue, Luke Dani, 1983-

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The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2022.

Gender identity -- Fiction.

Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.

9781952177033 (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

Pretend it is my body

1st Feminist Press ed.

240 p. ; 21 cm.

Certain disasters -- Suzuki in limbo -- Crush me -- Other people's points of view -- Pig in a poke -- My mother's bottomless hole -- A full and accurate recounting -- End of the world pussy -- Bad things that happen to girls -- Dogs of America.

In the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Daniel Lavery, these ten short stories ricochet between the lives we wish for and the ones we actually lead. A tornado survivor grapples with a new identity, a trans teen psychic can read only indecisive minds, and a woman informs her family of her plans to upload her consciousness and abandon her body. Ranging from con artists, middle-aged runaways, and prodigal "un-daughters," Luke Dani Blue's cast of misfits insist on marginal lives made central and magical thinking made real. Surreal, darkly humorous, and always deeply felt, Pretend It's My Body is bound together by the act of searching--for a story of one's own, for a glimpse of certainty, and for a spark of recognition and human connection.

2SLGBTQIA+ fiction.

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