Description
"The queer memoir you've been waiting for"--Carmen Maria Machado
Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her "penis problem," she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives. Misadventures abound: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard and is reprogrammed as a sixties femmebot; she writes a Juggalo Ghostbusters prequel and a socialist manifesto disguised as a porn parody of a quiz show. Or is it vice versa? As Grace fumbles toward a new trans identity, she tries on dozens of different voices, creating a coat of many colors.
With more dick jokes than a transsexual should be able to pull off, Please Miss gives us what we came for, then slaps us in the face and orders us to come again.
Author: Grace Lavery
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Published: 02/08/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 10.29h x 5.39w x 1.18d
ISBN13: 9781541620650
ISBN10: 1541620658
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Humor | Form | Parodies
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Transgender Studies
About the Author
Grace Lavery is an associate professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. A prominent public intellectual and activist, she has contributed to the Los Angeles Review of Books, Autostraddle, the New Inquiry, Them, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Slate. She's been sober since January 2016 and "full time" as a trans person since March 2018. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.