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A Safe Girl to Love
A Safe Girl to Love | Casey Plett
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Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn, featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love. These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating, or sad, but never will it be predictable.
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Bibliophibifemme
A Safe Girl to Love | Casey Plett
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It is a two book kind of day and I am down a Casey Plett hole.

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thestarlesscasea
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"Before I began to mortgage my liver and lungs, before I had friends afraid of cops and sidewalks, before I had dead friends, I just wanted to know what it was like to walk around with another girl and do that. I want to know what it's like to not be deathly worried about your friends...I was doing bad for a while, but I'm all right now, or at least stable...It's not like nobody believes I'm a girl...It's just that it all weighs on me."

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Not_That_Jem
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I loved this book. The characters are written with such love, even the ones who aren‘t very likable. Each story creates its own full world for the characters to inhabit, though there is some delightful overlap. A pleasure to read. Definitely recommend!

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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What a great day! It's FINALLY sunny in Vancouver and I got the best #BookMail today! It's an ARC of Topside Press's anthology of sci fi and fantasy by trans writers. So excited!! (Tagged another book by one of the editors Casey Plett since this one doesn't exist in the Litsy database).

Bibliogeekery Ooo, so exciting!!! 7y
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Zmeyche
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I really am glad we talk now. It's just hard to forget it took a trip to the emergency room.

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Zmeyche
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While you and I seek love, there are people who try to be satisfied with just a few nights spent in the company of someone they trust. With no beautiful words whispered into the night and no promises of eternal love.

All these short stories keep trying to tell you just one thing - trans people are just people. They are afraid, they are hopefull, they are trying to make peacefull living and be happy the way they can.

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Here's some amazing debut novels from some of the kickass queer and trans writers I adore! I recommend each and every one of them! #booktober #debutnovels #queerbooks #transbooks #diversebooks 💗

bookishkai Oooh, excited to see Stir Fry included in this list! It was my first Emma Donoghue ages and ages ago (20 years, to be exact), and I loved it! 7y
WOCreads Mia McKenzie!!👌📚 7y
Lindy Excellent choices! One I haven't read yet, and have been wanting to get my hands on, is 7y
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Bibliogeekery @bookishkris Stir Fry is so great! 7y
Bibliogeekery @Ifyoucanreadthis_Bina right?! Mia McKenzie is so great! 7y
Bibliogeekery @Lindy Thanks! Small Beauty is a lovely book. I think you'll enjoy it. 7y
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