| Description |
185 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Contents |
A year begins, with some flirtation -- awkward moments in the morning light -- some issues with accommodation -- excursions into the life of the night -- al fresco enjoyments in clement weather -- an annual community get-together -- transsexual literature takes the stage -- a disco full of lust and rage -- everyone deals with consequences -- complications of a daytime date -- on taking control of one's own fate -- a discussion regarding various offenses -- some episodes of lateral strife -- another year, another life? -- epilogue: top-voted comment. |
| Awards |
Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, 2023. |
| Subject |
Transgender women -- Fiction.
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Lesbians -- Fiction.
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Gay.
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Transgender women. (OCoLC)fst02003494
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Lesbians. (OCoLC)fst00996540
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New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn.
(OCoLC)fst01312516
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Novels in verse. (OCoLC)fst01921724
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Transgender fiction.
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LGBTQ+ fiction.
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Novels in verse.
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| ISBN |
9781644212332 (paperback) |
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1644212331 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
40031509245 |
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