Winner of the 2018 American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award Barbara Gittings Literature Award, this original collection brings together 25 beautiful, funny, and fantastical short stories of science fiction and fantasy from transgender writers. In 2017, MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE, a large, strange, and devastatingly touching anthology of science fiction and fantasy from transgender authors was released onto the world. The collection received rave acclaim and won the ALA Stonewall Book Award Barbara Gittings Literature Award. When its original publisher went out of business, the book fell out of print, and LittlePuss Press is now pleased to bring this title back to life for a new audience of readers. What is MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE, SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FROM TRANSGENDER WRITERS? It is the #1 post-reality generation device approved for home use. It will prepare you to travel from multiverse to multiverse. No experience is required! Choose from twenty-five preset post-realities! Rejoice at obstacles unquestionably bested and conflicts efficiently resolved. Bring denouement to your drama with THE FOOLPROOF AUGMENTATION DEVICE FOR OUR CONTEMPORARY UTOPIA.Fiction.

Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers

Literature & Fiction

United States

LittlePuss Press

About the Author\nOriginally from Argentina, Cecilia Gentili came to the USA pursuing a safer life as a transgender woman. She lived undocumented for 10 years, hustling doing sex work which came with drug use. After surviving arrests and an immigration detention, she accessed recovery services and won asylum. She subsequently served as Director of Policy at GMHC and founded Transgender Equity Consulting, which works to ensure all people living on the margins receive dignity and respect. A storyteller and actress, Cecilia has appeared in FX's Pose and her own one-woman show The Knife Cuts Both Ways. Faltas is her first book.\nA rich and moving epistolary memoir about transgender childhood, sexual trauma, motherhood, and a young queer life in 1970s Argentina 
WINNER OF THE ALA STONEWALL BOOK AWARD. As heard on NPR's Latino USA 
In these hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Cecilia Gentili reinvents the trans memoir, putting the confession squarely between the writer and her enemies, paramours and friends. Writing to childhood figures such as her rapist's daughter, her father's mistress, her best friend, and her mother, Gentili probes deeply into the bitter cruelty, buried secrets, and delicious gossip of a small town. Is she here for revenge, or forgiveness? Both! And more! A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Faltas is a beautiful, messy meditation on what it takes to heal, and even grow. 
"One of the best memoirs I've ever read."--Autostraddle 
"Uses humor and vivid storytelling to talk not only about abuse and trauma, but also joy and survival."--NPR 
"A little earthquake of a book."--Xtra 
"I don't know if I've ever read anything so emotionally honest and morally rigorous. Fuck all the college reading lists for Ethics 101. Just assign Faltas. It's funnier than Kant, and more realistic."--them 
"Blunt, no-punch-pulling … Gentili is able to reframe [her] experiences--as well as her formative clashes with colorism and transphobia--as communal projects rather than isolated incidents, the burden from which only she would otherwise bear."--Vulture 
"A painstaking, personal and power-filled manifesto for survivors and trans women and anyone dreaming and yearning on the margins."--Janet Mock, author of Redefining Realness 
"A brilliant writer whose Faltas (which is Spanish for "errors") are infallible reports from the front lines of trans literature. This book is irresistible."--Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story 
"These are bewitching accounts that do everything all at once: accuse, forgive, mock, heal, teach, seduce; stories that transcend classification and reality even as they tell hard truths. Cecilia Gentili is a singular voice that you can't miss."--Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby 
"Faltas pulsates with the same thrill as listening in secretly to a phone call, opening someone else's mail, reading a strangers' diary. You know it's wrong but you would do anything to keep going."--Morgan M Page, writer,Framing Agnes 
"In some ways I may never finish processing this book. Gentili's writing is so raw without ever feeling unpolished, so personal and honest and unflinching. Alongside Dream Rooms and A Year Without a Name: A Memoir, it is a trans memoir that apologizes for nothing and refuses to make compromises for cisgender readers. Gentili's treatment of the trauma central to Faltas is unparalleled; nothing feels sensationalized but nothing is shied away from. A phenomenal, important book."--Gus Thompson, The Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore, MD) 
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Latinx Studies. LGBTQ+ Studies. Women's Studies.\nBook Description\nA story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Cecilia Gentili reinvents the transgender memoir in this hilarious and heartbreaking debut.

Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

Biographies & Memoirs

Gentili, Cecilia

Community & Culture

Seven heartstoppingly gorgeous stories about young transgender life from from the Upper Midwest to New York City. 
In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompromising and hilarious lucidity. Attending to the intimacy of Gen Z women's lives, these stories move from the provinces to the metropolis, from chaotic student accommodation to insecure jobs, from parties to dates to the nights after, from haplessness to some kind of power. 
Funny and devastating, like a trans Mary McCarthy, Zhou depicts with shocking precision the choices and shifts through which we work on each other and ourselves. Tender, merciless, and gracious, GIRLFRIENDS is a breath of fresh air. 
"Intimate and perceptive … comes to life in the details that fill early adulthood for a cast of memorable young queer and trans characters -- escape-artist cats, house parties that are equal parts awkward and alluring, and dead-end jobs abided until real life begins."--San Francisco Chronicle 
"Tender, incisive portraits of trans womanhood, the ties that bind women to one another, and the complex relationships of youth. Simultaneously aligned with queer coming-of-age story collections of previous generations and dexterously subverting and revitalizing the genre, these seven stories offer a glimpse into the future of queer literature … this bright writer is leading the way."--Kirkus 
"GIRLFRIENDS sounds a loud bell announcing the change of guard: a generational arrival. Here is a writer who can scrap with the likes of Ann Beattie or Richard Ford but attends parties to which those boomers (or for that matter, we millennials) would never get invited."--Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby 
"Beautifully rendered and utterly compelling, Emily Zhou's stories remind me of late night phone conversations with a dear friend--a space that always feels fresh, no matter how many social triumphs and dysfunctions are nursed and examined--and where despite impossible ambiguities and distances, love strikes."--Dodie Bellamy, author of The Letters of Mina Harker and Cunt-Ups 
"Reading these pages immersed me in the slow transformative thrill of refusal. Emily Zhou knows how to arrive at an ending. Her stories capture the particular texture of those moments in which we turn away, not yet knowing what we are turning towards, but certain that whatever habits and attitudes we've become used to are over."--H Felix Chau Bradley, author of Personal Attention Roleplay 
"Emily Zhou is a writer that doesn't let you take sides. In these exquisite and discomforting stories characters talk at each other and rarely say what they really feel while their body language and their bodies find a way to make themselves heard. GIRLFRIENDS is untidy, hilarious, heartbreaking, and always satisfying. Zhou is a true witness. This is the fiction we've been waiting for."--Corinne Manning, author of We Had No Rules 
"Soaked in melancholy and the easy rhythm of cafe hangs, ad hoc photoshoots, and cutting remarks, these seven sharply observed stories navigate identities, fraying relationships, and the parties and mores of today's transsexual demimonde. Here Emily Zhou comes fully into her own terrifying powers: a writer to watch, just as she's watching all of us." --Jeanne Thornton, author of Summer Fun 
Fiction. LGBTQ+ Studies. Women's Studies.

Girlfriends

Zhou, Emily

Genre Fiction

Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (almost) Never Mix

Politics & Social Sciences

Cross, Katherine

Social Sciences

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