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RELEASE
“You’re gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine” “Through masterfully crafted scenes full of sumptuous imagery, readers
Whitehead
is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer and NDN glitter princess, are moved, just as these characters are, by forces beyond their control,
repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling debut novel by Joshua Whitehead.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM
Joshua
beyond their lifetimes.” in sensuous, mythic prose, Francesca
Off the rez and trying to find ways to live, love, and survive in the big city, Jonny has one Ekwuyasi’s sweeping debut novel tells
—C A T H E R I N E H E R N A N D E Z , author of Scarborough
week before he must return to his home—and his former life—to attend the funeral of his the interwoven stories of three Nigerian
stepfather. The seven days that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex,
women: Kambirinachi and her twin daugh-
kinship, ambition, and heartbreaking recollections of his beloved kokum (grandmother). “Ekwuyasi’s sensuous prose, deft plotting, and keen insights
Jonny’s life is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages—and as he goes through the ters, Kehinde and Taiye.
motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. into human nature combine to form a vision that feels like peering
Photo Credit: Dario Lozano-Thornton
Believing herself to be an Ọgbanje—a spirit
deep into the souls of a trio of dear friends. At once delicious and
JONNY APPLESEED
Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams. that plagues a family with grief by dying
heartbreaking, Butter Honey Pig Bread will leave the reader full
repeatedly in childhood and being reborn—
yet longing for more.” Kambirinachi fears the consequences of
—K A I C H E N G T H O M , author of I Hope We Choose Love her defiant decision to stay alive. Her worst
BACKLIST
“Joshua Whitehead redefines what queer Indigenous writing can be in his powerful debut
novel. Jonny Appleseed transcends genres of writing to blend the sacred and the sexual into fears come true when Kehinde experiences
a vital expression of Indigenous desire and love. Reading it is a coming home to bodies, “Butter Honey Pig Bread roves taste-first through the ingredients a devastating childhood trauma that frac-
stories, and experiences of queer Indigenous life that has never been so richly and honestly
shown before. This book is an honour song to every queer NDN body who has ever lived of things that mark the modern, if enduring, currents of familial tures the family in seemingly irreversible
and it will transform the universe with its beauty and magic.” ways. Kehinde moves away to Montreal to
—Gwen Benaway, author of Passage
and amorous bonds by a writer of ample talent.”
heal and build a life of her own. Taiye flees
—C A N I S I A L U B R I N , author of The Dyzgraphxst
“If we’re lucky, we’ll find one or two books in a lifetime that change the language of story, F R A N C E S C A E K W U Y A S I is a writer to London and attempts to numb her guilt
that manage to illuminate new curves in the flat vessels of old letters and words. This is one and multidisciplinary artist from Lagos, and loneliness with reckless hedonism.
of those books. Jonny Appleseed gifts us with clarity in the shape of sharp, and medicine in “Dissolution of spirit and mind, alienation, painful familial rifts,
Nigeria, whose work explores themes of After more than a decade apart, Taiye and
the guise of soft—and a sexy, powerful, broken, beautiful hero who has enough capacity in
faith, family, queerness, consumption, lone- and queer desire reverberate through this gorgeous debut. Ekwuyasi’s Kehinde return home to visit their mother
the dent of a clavicle to hold all the tears of his family.”
—Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves liness, and belonging. Her writing has been wondrous way with language is a profound gift.” in Lagos, where the three women must
published in Winter Tangerine, Brittle Paper, address the wounds of the past if they are to
“Jonny Appleseed is the most beautiful quill and bead work that I’ve felt since discovering —T A N A Ï S , author of Bright Lines
Transition Magazine, the Malahat Review, reconcile and move forward.
Chrystos and Gregory Scofield. I’m in awe, Jonny. I’m grateful, Joshua. I’m astounded at
everything you’ve gathered here for us to honour and blush about and witness. You are my visual arts news, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and guts
“Ekwuyasi has written a deeply moving novel that explores trauma, Incandescent and evocative, Butter Honey
new hero. Don’t you ever stop writing and sharing. Mahsi cho for your beauty.” magazine. Her story “Ọrun Is Heaven” was
—Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize. healing, and the beautifully complex relationships between mothers Pig Bread is an intergenerational tale of
NEW
“Jonny Appleseed weaponizes story to bring the rez (and urban rez) to life, shrouding its
ekwuyasi.com and daughters with vivid honesty. This is an inspiring debut.” choices and their consequences, of moth-
FRANCESCA
characters in luminous layers so they’re neither good nor bad but immersed in worlds and erhood, of the malleable line between
E KW U YA SI
—Z E B A B L A Y , senior culture writer, Huffington Post
words. Unflinching and intimate, Joshua Whitehead takes his readers on a journey to the the spirit and the mind, of finding new
heart of an NDN glitter princess with generous, swooning prose. Unforgettable.”
homes and mending old ones, of voracious
—Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster
appetites, of queer love, of friendship, faith,
fiction and above all, family.
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Arsenal Pulp Press gratefully acknowledges
the support of the Canada Council for
the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Arsenal Pulp Press acknowledges the
Council for its publishing program, and the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
Government of Canada, and the Government (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations,
custodians of the traditional, ancestral, and unceded
of British Columbia (through the Book territories where our office is located. We pay respect
Publishing Tax Credit Program), for its to their histories, traditions, and continuous living
publishing activities. cultures and commit to accountability, respectful
relations, and friendship.
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Bedtime in Nunatsiavut
NEW RELEASE
RAEANN BROWN
A sweet, beautiful book for children depicting the
transformative dreams envisioned by a young
Inuk girl, with the help of her loving mother.
In Bedtime in Nunatsiavut, a little girl named Nya yearns to fly,
swim, and wander like the goose, salmon, bear, fox, and other
animals that populate her world. Each night, her loving Anânak
(mother) tucks her into bed and gives her a kunik (nose-to-nose
rub) to help Nya dream and transform into the animals she longs
to be like.
In Nya’s dreams, she moves with the wonder and the freedom of the
natural world, dancing beneath the dark Nunatsiavut skies,
empowered and emboldened by her Anânak’s constant love. Written
and illustrated by first-time author Raeann Brown, Bedtime in
Nunatsiavut is a beautiful and joyful tribute to an Inuit childhood.
RAEANN BROWN lives with her family in Wabush, Newfoundland and
Labrador (NL), where she owns her own business, Inuky Glass Art &
Engraving. Born in Montreal, and having grown up in Postville, NL, Brown
was inspired by her culture from an early age and has been creating art for as
long as she can remember. Today, Brown etches and engraves a wide range
of glass, wood, acrylic, bone, and metal materials. Brown is an advocate of
Indigenous issues and often creates and writes about past and present events
that affect Indigenous peoples across Canada.
isbn 978-1-55152-887-8 children’s picture books (3 – 8) /
e-isbn 978-1-55152-888-5 juvenile fiction
9 x 12 | 40 pp | paper over boards juv030090 / juv012080 /
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Winter 2022 3
The Creative Instigator's Handbook
NEW RELEASE
A DIY Guide to Making Social
Change through Art
LEANNE PRAIN
From the co-creator of the seminal craftivism
book Yarn Bombing: a guide for creatives to
making impactful, socially engaged art projects.
Flash mobs come and go, but purposeful creativity can change
communities. Are you a creative (aspiring or otherwise) who is
curious about how you can apply your skills to activist, socially
engaged art projects? Whether you paint, sew, sing, build, weld,
or rhyme, The Creative Instigator’s Handbook explores how to take
that big project you’ve been dreaming about and actually make
it happen.
In response to the challenging times that we live in, The Creative
LEANNE PRAIN helps communities connect through creative ideas. A
Instigator’s Handbook will inspire readers to use their creativity
writer, speaker, and certified design professional, she is the author of three
previous books: Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & Knit Graffiti (with to spur change in the world around them. Guiding readers through
Mandy Moore), updated in a tenth-anniversary edition; Hoopla: The Art of the various aspects of a project from ideation to final documentation,
Unexpected Embroidery; and Strange Material: Storytelling through Textiles. the book examines the relationship between creative leadership,
She lives and writes in Vancouver. community art projects, and social justice, and includes the perspec-
leanneprain.com tives of 23 creative instigators who have stretched the boundaries
ALSO AVAILABLE of what “art” should or shouldn’t do.
The Creative Instigator’s Handbook will appeal to creatives willing
to expand their comfort zones by jumping into the fray and doing
some outrageous, inspired rabble-rousing of their very own.
Full colour throughout.
page 24 page 23
crafts & hobbies / visual art isbn 978-1-55152-875-5
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This Has Always Been a War
NEW RELEASE
The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer
LORI FOX
A powerful, personal critique of capitalist
patriarchy as seen through the eyes of a queer
radical.
Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social,
economic, and sexual lives. By examining the politics of gender,
environment, and sexuality, we can see the ways straight, cis, white,
and especially male upper-class people control and subvert the
other—queer, non-binary, BIPOC, and female bodies—in order to
keep the working lower classes divided. Patriarchy and classism are
forms of systemic violence which ensure that the main commodity
of capitalism—a large, disposable, cheap, and ideally subjugated
work force—is readily available. There is a lot wrong with the ways
we live, work, and treat each other.
In essays that are both accessible and inspiring, Lori Fox exam-
ines their confrontations with the capitalist patriarchy through
their experiences as a queer, non-binary, working-class farmhand,
labourer, bartender, bush-worker, and road dog, exploring the ugly
places where issues of gender, sexuality, class, and the environment
intersect. LORI FOX is a queer, non-binary, working-class writer and journalist. Their
work, which focuses on issues of class, gender, sexuality, the environment,
In applying the micro to the macro, demonstrating how the person- and the messy places where these things intersect, has appeared with
al is political and vice versa, Fox exposes the flaws in believing that The Guardian, Vice, and The Globe and Mail, among many other outlets.
this is the only way our society can or should work. Brash, topical, This Has Always Been a War is their first book.
and passionate, This Has Always Been a War is not only a collection lorifox.squarespace.com
of essays, but a series of dispatches from the combative front lines
of our present-day culture.
isbn 978-1-55152-877-9 lgbtq+ non-fiction /
e-isbn 978-1-55152-878-6 biography & memoir
6 x 8 | 224 pp | paperback soc064000 / soc050000 /
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pub month: may
Winter 2022 5
My Volcano
NEW RELEASE
JOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI
The brilliant new novel from the fiercely talented
author of Vanishing Monuments, shortlisted for
the Amazon Canada First Novel Award.
On the morning of June 2, 2016, a jogger in Central Park notices a
mass of stone in the centre of the reservoir, a mass that three weeks
later will have grown into an active stratovolcano nearly two and
a half miles tall. This inexplicable event seems to coincide with an
escalation of strange phenomena happening around the world.
For readers of Karen Tei Yamashita and Haruki Murakami and fans of
David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, My Volcano
sets the mythic and absurd against the starkly realistic, attempting to
portray what it feels like to live in a burning world stricken numb.
My Volcano is a pre-apocalyptic vision following a global and diverse
cast of characters, each experiencing private and collective erup-
tions, including: an eight-year-old boy in Mexico City who finds
himself 500 years in the past; a folktale scholar in Tokyo who studies
a story with indeterminate origins about a woman coming down
JOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI is a trans, non-binary novelist, poet, and artist a mountain to destroy villages and towns; and a white trans writer
who grew up on a cattle farm in northwestern Ontario. Stintzi’s work has
living in Jersey City who struggles to write a sci-fi novel about a
been awarded the 2019 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
thriving civilization on an impossible planet.
from the Writers’ Trust of Canada and The Malahat Review’s 2019 Long
Poem Prize, and has been longlisted for the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s With audacious structure and poetic prose, My Volcano is an electri-
Journey Prize and the National Magazine Awards. They are the author of the fying tapestry on fire.
novel Vanishing Monuments and the poetry collection Junebat.
johnelizabethstintzi.com
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“With the panoramic scope and astute sharpness of Samanta Schweblin’s
Little Eyes and the eerie chill of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach
trilogy, John Elizabeth Stintzi’s My Volcano immediately grabs you by the
shirt and doesn’t let you go.”
—Alicia Elliott, author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
“A kaleidoscopic, contemporary folktale with added acerbic juice, like when
Dylan went electric. Stintzi somehow funnels the tumultuous present into a
page 17 sprawling novel of collision and connection that’s both timely and timeless.”
—Hazel Jane Plante, author of Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian)
fiction isbn 978-1-55152-873-1
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fic068000 / fic090030 6 x 8 | 360 pp | paperback
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Buffalo Is The New Buffalo
NEW RELEASE
CHELSEA VOWEL
Powerful stories of “Métis futurism” that
envision a world without violence, capitalism,
or colonization.
“Education is the new buffalo” is a metaphor widely used among In-
digenous peoples in Canada to signify the importance of education
to their survival and ability to support themselves, as once Plains
nations supported themselves as buffalo peoples. The assumption is
that many of the pre-Contact ways of living are forever gone, so ad-
aptation is necessary. But Chelsea Vowel asks, “Instead of accepting
that the buffalo, and our ancestral ways, will never come back, what
if we simply ensure that they do?”
Inspired by classic and contemporary speculative fiction, Buffalo Is
the New Buffalo explores science-fiction tropes through a Métis lens:
a Two-Spirit rougarou (shapeshifter) in the nineteenth century tries
to solve a murder in her community and joins the nêhiyaw-pwat
(Iron Confederacy) in order to successfully stop Canadian colonial
expansion into the West. A Métis man is gored by a radioactive bi-
son, gaining super strength, but losing the ability to be remembered
by anyone not related to him by blood. Nanites babble to babies in CHELSEA VOWEL is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne),
Cree, virtual reality teaches transformation, foxes take human form Alberta, and currently residing in amiskwacîwâskihikan (Edmonton).
and wreak havoc on hearts, buffalo roam free, and beings grapple Mother to six girls, she is a writer and educator, co-host of Indigenous
with the thorny problem of healing from colonialism. feminist sci-fi podcast Métis in Space, co-founder of the Métis in Space
Land Trust, and author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis
Indigenous futurisms seek to discover the impact of colonization, & Inuit Issues in Canada.
remove its psychological baggage, and recover ancestral traditions. apihtawikosisan.com
These eight short stories of “Métis futurism” explore Indigenous
existence and resistance through the specific lens of being Métis.
Expansive and eye-opening, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo rewrites our
shared history in provocative and exciting ways.
isbn 978-1-55152-879-3 fiction
e-isbn 978-1-55152-880-9 fic059000 / fic028070 /
6 x 8 | 272 pp | paperback fic044000 / fic090030
$21.95 can | $18.95 usa pub month: april
Winter 2022 7
Dandelion
NEW RELEASE
JAMIE CHAI YUN LIEW
Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award winner:
a debut novel in which a Chinese Canadian
woman traces her mother’s past journey to learn
who she really is and where she belongs.
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked
away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now,
as a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out
what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing
up in a small British Columbia mining town as one of only a hand-
ful of Asian families; Lily’s previously stateless father wanted them
to blend seamlessly into Canadian life, while her mother, alienated
and isolated, longed to return to Brunei. Years later, still affected by
Swee Hua’s disappearance, Lily’s family is stubbornly silent to her
questioning. But eventually, an old family friend provides a clue that
sends Lily to Southeast Asia to find out the truth.
Winner of the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the
Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop, Dandelion is a beautifully
written and affecting novel about motherhood, family secrets,
migration, isolation, and mental illness. With clarity and care,
it delves into the many ways we define home, identity, and, above
all, belonging.
JAMIE CHAI YUN LIEW is the recipient of the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging
Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop. She is a lawyer
and law professor specializing in immigration, refugee, and citizenship law “With finely wrought observations and complex characters, Liew
and the creator of the podcast Migration Conversations. She lives in Ottawa captures the subtle nuances of immigration, race, belonging, diaspora,
with her family. and what it means to be Other.”
www.jcyliew.com —Lindsay Wong, author of The Woo-Woo
“Rich in imagery detailing the immigrant experience, Jamie Chai Yun
Liew’s debut novel picks at the open wound of diasporic displacement
with tenderness and compassion.”
—Catherine Hernandez, author of Scarborough and Crosshairs
fiction isbn 978-1-55152-881-6
fic054000 / fic044000 / e-isbn 978-1-55152-882-3
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Beast at Every Threshold
NEW RELEASE
NATALIE WEE
A formidable collection of poems that
deconstruct the notion of “otherness”
through folklore and myth.
An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances
between familial hauntings and cultural histories, intimate hungers
and broader griefs. Memories become malleable, pop culture
provides a backdrop to glittery queer love, and folklore speaks back
as a radical tool of survival. With unapologetic precision, Natalie
Wee unravels constructs of “otherness” and names language our
most familiar weapon, illuminating the intersections of queerness,
diaspora, and loss with obsessive, inexhaustible ferocity—and in
resurrecting the self rendered a site of violence, makes visible the
"Beast at Every Threshold."
Beguiling and deeply imagined, Wee’s poems explore thresholds of
marginality, queerness, immigration, nationhood, and reinvention
of the self through myth.
“Beast at Every Threshold is one of those rare collections where NATALIE WEE is a queer creator. She is the author of Our Bodies & Other
everything—the past, the future, our mythologies, and the ways we Fine Machines (San Press, 2021) and Beast at Every Threshold (Arsenal Pulp,
feel in the present—coalesces in a flash of honesty and clarity.” 2022) and a Best of the Net finalist. Born in Singapore to Malaysian parents,
—Jen Sookfong Lee, author of The Shadow List Natalie is currently a settler in Tkaronto.
natalieweewrites.com
“Natalie Wee’s inventiveness in Beast at Every Threshold queers the
reader's expectations with gravity and delight.”
—Rajiv Mohabir, author of Cutlish and Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
isbn 978-1-55152-883-0 poetry
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Winter 2022 9Swollening
NEW RELEASE
JASON PURCELL
A tender debut poetry collection that examines
the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world
and asks it how to move on toward hope.
Jason Purcell’s debut collection of poems rests at the intersection
of queerness and illness, staking a place for the queer body that has
been made sick through living in this world. Part poetic experiment
and part memoir, Swollening attempts to diagnose what has been
undiagnosable, tracing an uneven path from a lifetime of swallowing
bad feelings—homophobia in its external and internalized manifes-
tations, heteronormativity, anxiety surrounding desire, aversion to
sex—to a body in revolt.
In poems that speak using the grammar and logics of sickness,
Purcell offers a dizzying collision of word and image that is the
language of pain alongside the banality of living on. Beginning by
reading his own life and body closely and slowly zooming out to read
illness in the world, Purcell comes to ask: how might a sick, queer
body forgive itself for a natural reaction to living in a sick world and
go on toward hope? In Swollening, Purcell coughs up their own poet-
JASON PURCELL Jason Purcell is a writer and musician from amisk- ics of illness, their own aesthetics of pain, to form a tender collection
wacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6, (Edmonton, Alberta), where they are also the that lands straight in the gut.
co-owner of Glass Bookshop. As a chronically ill writer, Jason writes at the
intersection of queerness and illness and is the author of the chapbook
A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). Swollening is their first full-
“In Swollening, Purcell tears open and probes beneath the physical with
length collection.
precision, only to stitch it back up for intimacy—viscerally encapsulating
jasonpurcell.ca
the push and pull, shrink and swell of being embodied.”
—Vivek Shraya, author of even this page is white and I’m Afraid of Men
“Jason Purcell's much-anticipated debut will echo through your body
long after reading. These poems are lucid and fearless, facing the whole
gamut of urban and rural cruelty with gentleness and precision.”
—Leah Horlick, author of For Your Own Good and Moldovan Hotel
poetry isbn 978-1-55152-885-4
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10 ARSENAL PULP PRESSRECENT RELEASES
For Laika
The Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars
KAI CHENG THOM & KAI YUN CHING
By two of the co-creators of the acclaimed children's book From the Stars in
the Sky to the Fish in the Sea: the moving and beautifully told story of Laika,
the dog who learned the names of the stars. Part fable, part dog story, part
history lesson, the story of Laika's brave and loving heart will captivate young
and older readers alike, offering important lessons about world peace, science,
and the deep bonds between humans and every other creature with whom we
share the planet.
CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS (3-8)
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fall 2021 release
The 500 Years of Indigenous
Resistance Comic Book
GORD HILL
A new and expanded version of Gord Hill’s seminal illustrated history of
Indigenous struggles in the Americas, produced in full colour for the first
time. The book powerfully portrays flashpoints in history when Indigenous
peoples have risen up and fought back against colonizers and other
oppressors: a necessary antidote to conventional histories of the Americas.
Includes a foreword by Pamela Palmater. INDIGENOUS HISTORY / GRAPHIC
NON-FICTION
ISBN 978-1-55152-852-6
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fall 2021 release
Winter 2022 11RECENT RELEASES
Vancouver Vice
AARON CHAPMAN
Aaron Chapman, the two-time Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award-
winning author of such bestselling Vancouver-themed books as Vancouver
after Dark and The Last Gang in Town, turns his gaze toward the city’s
tumultuous West End in his latest opus. Part murder mystery, investigative
expose, and cultural history, this book transports readers back to a grittier,
more chaotic time in the city, when gambling dens prevailed, police listened
in on wire taps, and hustlers plied their trade on street corners. With warm
regard and a whiff of nostalgia, Vancouver Vice peers behind the curtain to
HISTORY (BC / CANADA) examine how the city once indulged in its vices, and at what cost.
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fall 2021 release
A Dream of a Woman
CASEY PLETT
Casey Plett’s 2018 novel Little Fish won the Amazon Canada First Novel
Award and a Lambda Literary Award; here, she returns with a poignant
suite of stories that centre transgender women. An ethereal meditation on
partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and love, the stories
in A Dream of a Woman buzz with quiet intensity and the intimate
complexities of being human.
fiction
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Between Certain Death
and a Possible Future
MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE, ED.
This wide-ranging anthology includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and
persistent impact of the AIDS crisis in queer lives, written by those who grew
up with it. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific
generational story—essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom,
while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences.
“An exciting and important collection that reconvenes community and
brings our hidden feelings and experiences of HIV again to light and to LGBTQ+ NON-FICTION
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consciousness.” E-ISBN 978-1-55152-851-9
$27.95 CAN | $22.95 USA
—Sarah Schulman, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse and Let the Record Show:
fall 2021 release
A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Special Topics in Being a Human
S. BEAR BERGMAN & SAUL FREEDMAN-LAWSON
In this charming illustrated guide, S. Bear Bergman offers practical advice
for the modern age, filtered through a queer lens. Featuring disarming
illustrations by Saul Freedman-Lawson, Special Topics calls out social
inequities and injustices in traditional advice giving and tries to help you
be your best possible self with kindness, compassion, and humour.
“Sweet, soulful, and deeply humane. Bear at his best.”
—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home
LGBTQ+ NON-FICTION / GRAPHIC
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Winter 2022 13RECENT RELEASES
The Care We Dream Of
ZENA SHARMAN
By the Lambda Award-winning editor of The Remedy, The Care We
Dream Of offers possibilities—grounded in historical examples, present-
day experiments, and dreams of the future—for more liberatory and
transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health and healing. It challenges
readers to think differently about LGBTQ+ health and asks what it would
look like if our health care were rooted in a commitment to the flourishing
and liberation of all LGBTQ+ people. This book is a calling out, a calling in,
LGBTQ+ NON-FICTION / HEALTH and a call to action. It is a spell of healing and tranformation, rooted in love.
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our well beings.”
fall 2021 release
—Vivek Shraya, author of I'm Afraid of Men
No Man’s Land
JOHN VIGNA
In this powerful, panoramic novel set in the late 1890s in a sliver of rugged
British Columbia wilderness, a fourteen-year-old girl named Davey finds
herself raised by a group of eccentric, hostile misfits who rescued her as
an infant from a bloody battlefield. She roams the countryside with them,
led by Reverend Brown, a charismatic false prophet, hosting revivals for
unsuspecting believers while lingering on the cusp of unimaginable events.
No Man's Land is an unflinching meditation on the legacy of violence, its
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in a landscape of soaring, searing beauty.”
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—Annabel Lyon, author of Consent
“No Man's Land is a novel of grand themes: the collision of faith and
fallibility, of facts and falsehood. It’s a wild, unpredictable saga.”
—Ian Williams, author of Reproduction
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The Scent of Pomegranates
and Rose Water
HABEEB SALLOUM ET AL.
A beautiful cookbook featuring centuries-old
COOKING
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Decolonize Your Diet Tin Fish Gourmet
LUZ CALVO & CATRIONA RUEDA ESQUIBEL BARBARA-JO MCINTOSH
International Latino Book Award winner: this An elegant seafood cookbook that demonstrates
vegetarian cookbook redefines the meaning of how to transform everyday canned seafood into
“traditional” Mexican food by reaching back stylish, delicious dishes.
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EMILY WIGHT
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Well Fed, Flat Broke.
cooking (european / entertaining)
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A Feast for All Seasons After Delores
ANDREW GEORGE JR. WITH ROBERT GAIRNS SARAH SCHULMAN
Andrew George’s first cookbook of Indigenous New edition of Schulman’s novel about a broken-
recipes featuring ingredients from the land, sea, hearted waitress looking for love in New York’s
and sky. See also Modern Native Feasts (this page). Lower East Side.
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Modern Native Feasts Anatomy of a Girl Gang
ANDREW GEORGE JR. ASHLEY LITTLE
Andrew George’s second cookbook puts a Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winner; IMPAC Dublin
contemporary spin on traditional Indigenous Literary Award longlist: the powerful portrayal of
recipes. See also A Feast for All Seasons a young girl gang in Vancouver called the Black
(this page). Roses.
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Winter 2022 15Arborescent The Mere Future
MARC HERMAN LYNCH SARAH SCHULMAN
Ghosts, doppelgängers, and a man who turns into Schulman’s acclaimed dystopian satire about
a tree: a startling novel that strives to articulate urban mores is set in New York sometime in
the immigrant body. “A novel that is both socially the future, when real estate is unattainable and
daring and full of wonders.”—Larissa Lai, author everyone has a job in marketing.
of The Tiger Flu FICTION
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Butter Honey Pig Bread Nowadays and Lonelier
rfully crafted scenes full of sumptuous imagery, readers
as these characters are, by forces beyond their control,
beyond their lifetimes.” FRANCESCA EKWUYASI
in sensuous, mythic prose, Francesca
Ekwuyasi’s sweeping debut novel tells
CARMELLA GRAY-COSGROVE
H E R I N E H E R N A N D E Z , author of Scarborough
the interwoven stories of three Nigerian
A vibrant debut story collection about loneliness
women: Kambirinachi and her twin daugh-
2021 Canada Reads runner-up; Governor
’s sensuous prose, deft plotting, and keen insights
ters, Kehinde and Taiye.
ature combine to form a vision that feels like peering
Believing herself to be an Ọgbanje—a spirit
souls of a trio of dear friends. At once delicious and
that plagues a family with grief by dying
and love, privilege and poverty, addiction and
ng, Butter Honey Pig Bread will leave the reader full
General’s Literary Award finalist: a sweeping
repeatedly in childhood and being reborn—
yet longing for more.” Kambirinachi fears the consequences of
C H E N G T H O M , author of I Hope We Choose Love her defiant decision to stay alive. Her worst
fears come true when Kehinde experiences
intergenerational saga that tells the story of isolation. “A dazzling collection of stories that
ey Pig Bread roves taste-first through the ingredients a devastating childhood trauma that frac-
t mark the modern, if enduring, currents of familial tures the family in seemingly irreversible
ways. Kehinde moves away to Montreal to
amorous bonds by a writer of ample talent.”
heal and build a life of her own. Taiye flees
made me feel so much.” —Zoe Whittall
A N I S I A L U B R I N , author of The Dyzgraphxst
three Nigerian women. A novel of queer love,
to London and attempts to numb her guilt
and loneliness with reckless hedonism.
of spirit and mind, alienation, painful familial rifts,
After more than a decade apart, Taiye and
re reverberate through this gorgeous debut. Ekwuyasi’s Kehinde return home to visit their mother
friendship, and family.
drous way with language is a profound gift.” in Lagos, where the three women must
—T A N A Ï S , author of Bright Lines
s written a deeply moving novel that explores trauma,
address the wounds of the past if they are to
reconcile and move forward.
Fall 2021 RELEASE
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Incandescent and evocative, Butter Honey
he beautifully complex relationships between mothers Pig Bread is an intergenerational tale of
ers with vivid honesty. This is an inspiring debut.”
fiction
choices and their consequences, of moth-
FRANCESCA
erhood, of the malleable line between
E KW U YA SI
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Don’t Tell Me What to Do The Outer Harbour
DINA DEL BUCCHIA WAYDE COMPTON
Funny, strange stories about imperfect people Vancouver Book Award winner: stories about
doing imperfect things. “An exhilerating fiction race, migration, and home centred around a new
debut.”—Publishers Weekly volcanic island off the coast of Vancouver. See
FICTION also The Blue Road (pg. 25).
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Everything Is Awful and You’re The Plague
a Terrible Person KEVIN CHONG
DANIEL ZOMPARELLI
A modern retelling of the Camus classic, fraught
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize finalist: in these with the political and cultural anxieties of our
unconventional, interconnected stories, gay men look time. “A nuanced study of human nature under
for love in any way possible: a deadpan, tragicomic biological siege.”—Eden Robinson, author of the
exploration of love, desire, and dysfunction. Trickster trilogy
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eed a rock and a whole lotta medicine” Jonny Appleseed Rat Bohemia
Whitehead
eseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer and NDN glitter princess,
d and utterly compelling debut novel by Joshua Whitehead.
Joshua
nd ways to live, love, and survive in the big city, Jonny has one
n to his home—and his former life—to attend the funeral of his
that follow are like a fevered dream: stories of love, trauma, sex,
JOSHUA WHITEHEAD SARAH SCHULMAN
artbreaking recollections of his beloved kokum (grandmother).
eakages, appendages, and linkages—and as he goes through the
2021 Canada Reads winner; Governor General’s A bold, achingly honest novel written from
urn home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life.
JONNY APPLESEED
shattering vision of Indigenous life, full of grit, glitter, and dreams.
nes what queer Indigenous writing can be in his powerful debut
nscends genres of writing to blend the sacred and the sexual into
genous desire and love. Reading it is a coming home to bodies,
queer Indigenous life that has never been so richly and honestly
Literary Award finalist: the celebrated tour-de-force the epicentre of the AIDS crisis, set in the “rat
novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer and proud NDN bohemia” of New York. Named one of the 100
is an honour song to every queer NDN body who has ever lived
ansform the universe with its beauty and magic.”
—Gwen Benaway, author of Passage
one or two books in a lifetime that change the language of story,
princess trying to find ways to live, love, and survive. best gay and lesbian novels of all time by the
new curves in the flat vessels of old letters and words. This is one
eseed gifts us with clarity in the shape of sharp, and medicine in
xy, powerful, broken, beautiful hero who has enough capacity in
of a clavicle to hold all the tears of his family.”
rie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves
ost beautiful quill and bead work that I’ve felt since discovering
ofield. I’m in awe, Jonny. I’m grateful, Joshua. I’m astounded at
d here for us to honour and blush about and witness. You are my
ever stop writing and sharing. Mahsi cho for your beauty.”
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izes story to bring the rez (and urban rez) to life, shrouding its
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er princess with generous, swooning prose. Unforgettable.”
den Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster
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Little Fish Scarborough
plett
casey
Catherine Hernandez
he Lambda Literary
g story collection
Girl to Love. A GLOBE & MAIL AND NATIONAL POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Winnipeg and Wendy
trans woman, feels like her
CASEY PLETT Scarborough
LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS
is a low-income, culturally diverse neighbourhood east of
CATHERINE HERNANDEZ
hen her Oma passes away Toronto; like many inner-city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty,
pected phone call from a drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough the novel employs a multitude of voices
Winner, Amazon Canada First Novel Award and Trillium and Toronto Book Award finalist;
h a startling secret: Wendy’s to tell the story of a tight-knit neighbourhood under fire, offering a raw yet empathetic
Little Fish
evout Mennonite farmer— glimpse into a troubled community that locates its dignity in unexpected places: a
nder himself. At first she neighbourhood that refuses to be undone.
but as Wendy’s life grows
finds herself aching for the “Scarborough marks the arrival of a fierce new voice in Canadian fiction.
Lambda Literary Award: a transcendent novel longlisted for Canada Reads: a poignant multi-
ruth. Can Wendy unravel the Hernandez has rendered one of the most vibrant portraits of
er’s world and reckon with contemporary suburbia I’ve yet encountered.”
ped and rejected her? She’s —Jordan Tannahill, Governor General’s Award-winning playwright
“It’s said that sometimes an author needs to write fiction in order to tell the most searing
truth, and Scarborough is perfect proof of that axiom. This is a beautifully rendered,
Scarborough
d and dark-spirited,
about a trans woman who learns her grandfather voiced novel about life in the inner city, locating
intimately populated landscape that honours and cherishes characters we usually only
Little Fish explores the see relegated to background scenery and pat, two-dimensional representations. It feels
he life of one transgender at once foreign and familiar, soothing and challenging—the kind of storytelling that
uture become irrevocably touches our tenderest places;
the best kind of storytelling I know.”
—S. Bear Bergman, author of Butch Is a Noun
may have been trans himself. See also A Dream of
n, understood, or spoken to
dignity in unexpected places.
and The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
le Fish. Never before in my
f THE authors to read if you “Scarborough showcases a necessary shift from the singular voice novel to create space
nterior lives of trans women for many voices to be heard—especially ones that are often forgotten. In her dexterous
—Meredith Russo, debut, Catherine Hernandez powerfully centres the margins by interlacing narratives that
I Was Your Girl spotlight the beauty that thrives beyond the big city.”
a Woman (pg. 8).
—Vivek Shraya, author of even this page is white
most novels don’t touch.
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and She of the Mountains
re, maybe you know how
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darkness so honestly, so
n finally begin to let it go.
t
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IN THIS BOLD, BEAUTIFUL,
VIVEK SHRAYA LARISSA LAI
and wildly imaginative new novel by Larissa
Lai, Kirilow is a doctor who lives in Grist
“After disease and environmental destruction reorder the world, Larissa
Village with a community of women who
Lai’s rebel clones and flu-ridden survivors inhabit a future both wildly
built their own society in exile after being
imaginative and shockingly cruel. Blending the surreal and the entirely
Lambda Literary Award finalist: an illustrated
expelled by patriarchal Saltwater City
Lambda Literary Award winner: a stunning novel
possible, The Tiger Flu is majestically compelling. A must-read.”
because of a unique genetic mutation. Her
*—EDEN ROBINSON, AUTHOR OF SON OF A TRICKSTER*
lover is Peristrophe, a “starfish” woman who
can regrow her organs, an ability she uses to
“Larissa Lai’s imagination is both scintillating and dark, and somewhere
novel that weaves a passionate love story between about a community of parthenogenic women
help the Grist sisters extend their lives when
in this intersection lies her genius. Orwell said that writing a dystopian
their own organs fail. When an outsider
novel, such as 1984, was like surviving a long illness. Reading The
from Saltwater City sick with the tiger flu
Tiger Flu—Lai’s 2145 and onward—is itself a fever dream, a shivering
infiltrates the village, Peristrophe falls ill
a man and his body, with a reimagining of Hindu
premonition, a familiar and strange future. This is the sort of fiction we
under siege after the end of the world.
and dies, so the grieving Kirilow must travel
will all need to contract if we are to find a way to live on this side of the
to the city to find a new starfish. There, she
Photo: Monique de St. Croix
point of no return.”
meets Kora, a young woman desperate to
LARISSA LAI is the author of two *—WAYDE COMPTON, AUTHOR OF THE OUTER HARBOUR*
save her family from the epidemic. Kora has
mythology. See also even this page is white (pg. 24).
novels, When Fox Is a Thousand and Salt
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Fish Girl; two poetry collections, sybil unrest “This novel is a dazzling singularity. Larissa Lai has conjured a future
the pair can join forces, they’re kidnapped
and Automaton Biographies; and a book of so darkly brilliant and believable, it feels like now, magnified. No other
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A Canada Research Chair at the University to marvel at, to savour, and to ponder deeply.”
the body.
of Calgary, she directs the Insurgent *—WARREN CARIOU, AUTHOR OF LAKE OF THE PRAIRIES*
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a saga of two women heroes, a cyber/
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cautionary tale—a striking metaphor for our
complicated times.
Shut Up You’re Pretty Vanishing Monuments
TÉA MUTONJI JOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI
Trillium Book Award and Publishing Triangle A beautiful, tenderly written debut novel about a
Award winner; Writers’ Trust Prize for Fiction non-binary photographer who returns home after
finalist: darkly humorous stories that probe thirty years to tend to their mother, now suffering
the intersections of identity, femininity, and from dementia.
womanness. FICTION
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Sketchtasy We Had No Rules
MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE CORINNE MANNING
Lambda Literary Award finalist: an urgent novel In Corinne Manning’s stunning debut story
set in the mid-90s featuring Alexa, a resilient collection, a cast of queer characters explores
twenty-one-year-old queen who lives without the choice of assimilation over rebellion. “As
rules or apologies. necessary as it is delightful, We Had No Rules is
FICTION not to be missed.”—Literary Hub
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Sodom Road Exit
AMBER DAWN
GRAPHIC NOVELS &
Lambda Literary Award finalist: Amber Dawn’s
second novel, at once a compelling family
melodrama and a lesbian supernatural thriller.
GRAPHIC NON-FICTION
See also My Art Is Killing Me (pg. 25) and Sub
Rosa (this page).
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Soucouyant The Anti-Capitalist Resistance
DAVID CHARIANDY Comic Book
GORD HILL
Governor General’s Award finalist; Giller Prize
longlist: a Caribbean Canadian son pieces The history of anti-capitalist and anti-
together the life of his mother, now suffering from globalization movements around the world.
dementia. See also The 500 Years of Resistance Comic
FICTION Book (pg. 4) and The Antifa Comic Book
ISBN 978-1-55152-226-5 | E-ISBN 978-1-55152-376-7 (this page).
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Sub Rosa The Antifa Comic Book
AMBER DAWN GORD HILL
Lambda Literary Award winner: a teenaged A stirring graphic history of fascism and antifa
runaway stumbles upon an underground society movements around the world. Foreword by Mark
of missing girls and would-be johns. See also Bray. “A riveting and fact-based history that feels
Sodom Road Exit (this page) and My Art Is Killing more important than ever.”—Booklist
Me (pg. 25). GRAPHIC NON-FICTION | HISTORY
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Winter 2022 17Becoming Unbecoming Dear Scarlet
UNA TERESA WONG
A powerful graphic novel that is a denunciation of City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize finalist:
sexual violence against women. “Best Memoir of a poignant graphic memoir about postpartum
2016.”—Oprah.com depression and the complexities of new
GRAPHIC NON-FICTION motherhood.
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Blue Is the Warmest Color Death Threat
JULIE MAROH VIVEK SHRAYA & NESS LEE
New York Times bestseller: a lesbian love story for Lambda Literary Award and Doug Wright Award
the ages. Film version won the Palme d’Or at the finalist: a comic book that explores the real-life
2013 Cannes Film Festival. Over 80,000 copies death threat against writer/musician Vivek Shraya
sold. See also Body Music (this page). after she came out as trans.
GRAPHIC NOVELS / LGBTQ+ GRAPHIC NOVEL
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Bronx Heroes in Trumpland Kimiko Does Cancer
RAY FELIX & TOM SCIACCA KIMIKO TOBIMATSU & KEET GENIZA
In this satirical superhero comic book, Astron A moving and honest graphic memoir about
Star Soldier and Black Power join forces the unexpected cancer journey of a young,
to confront their greatest foe ever—an evil queer, mixed-race woman. “Beautifully drawn
supervillain named Donald Trump. and candidly told.”—Teresa Wong, author of Dear
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / HUMOUR Scarlet
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Body Music Forward
JULIE MAROH LISA MAAS
By the author of Blue Is the Warmest Color ALA Stonewall Honor Book winner: a life-
(this page): a beautiful, bittersweet graphic affirming graphic novel about two women at a
novel about the complexities of love, set in the romantic crossroads, looking for a way to move
neighbourhoods of Montreal. forward.
GRAPHIC NOVELS / LGBTQ+ GRAPHIC NOVELS / LGBTQ+
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The Case of Alan Turing Our Work Is Everywhere
ERIC LIBERGE & ARNAUD DELALANDE SYAN ROSE
A graphic biography of Alan Turing, the brilliant A visually stunning collection of illustrated
WWII codebreaker later condemned by British narratives on queer and trans resistance.
authorities for his homosexuality. Includes a foreword by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-
GRAPHIC NON-FICTION Samarasinha (Care Work, pg. 21).
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Castro Saigon Calling: London 1963–75
REINHARD KLEIST MARCELINO TRUONG
A vivid graphic non-fiction book on the life A sequel to the acclaimed Such a Lovely Little
of Fidel Castro, one of the most enduring and War (pg. 19): growing up Vietnamese in swinging
controversial figures in modern history. London as the Vietnam War intensifies.
GRAPHIC NON-FICTION / HISTORY GRAPHIC NON-FICTION / HISTORY
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BELDAN SEZEN SHAYDA KAFAI
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Such a Lovely Little War: The Dictionary of Homophobia
Saigon 1961–63 LOUIS-GEORGES TIN (ED.)
MARCELINO TRUONG
An encyclopedic book that documents the history
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Swimming in Darkness Dirty River
LUCAS HARARI; DAVID HOMEL (TRANS.) LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA
An NPR Best Book of the Year: architecture Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Award
student Pierre is drawn to the enigmatic powers finalist: a transformative memoir by a queer
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Double Melancholy
C.E. GATCHALIAN
A memoir about how art provided a “syllabus of
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LGBTQ+ queer person of colour.
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Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter Female Trouble:
S. BEAR BERGMAN A Queer Film Classic
Lambda Literary Award finalist: Bergman’s CHRIS HOLMLUND
third essay collection on trans experience that A Queer Film Classic on John Waters’s hysterical
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Butch Is a Noun First Spring Grass Fire
S. BEAR BERGMAN RAE SPOON
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