Choir Boy (First Edition)

Charlie Anders (Charlie Jane Anders)

ISBN 10: 1932360816 / ISBN 13: 9781932360813

Published by Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, 2005

About this Item

First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean, tight copy in an unclipped jacket. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Light foxing on top edge, and fading on jacket spine (as pictured), of an otherwise beautiful copy. Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender/GenderQueer Fiction. Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-1567

Bibliographic Details

Title: Choir Boy (First Edition)

Publisher: Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Twelve-year-old choirboy Berry wants nothing more than to remain a choirboy, surrounded by perfect notes, as opposed to his imperfect, quarreling parents. Choral music and the prospect of divinity thrill him. Desperate to keep his voice from changing, he tries to injure himself, and then convinces a clinic to give him testosterone-inhibiting drugs. The hormone pills keep Berry's voice from deepening but also cause him to grow breasts. Suddenly Berry faces a world of unexpected gender issues that push him into a universe far more complex than anything he has experienced. A fantastical coming-of-age story, Choir Boy combines off-kilter humor and its own brand of modern day magic in a rollicking, bittersweet story about growing up different.

About the Author:

A former choir boy, Charlie Anders still sings in choirs and karaoke bars. She's the publisher of other, the magazine of pop culture and politics for the new outcasts. Her writing has been published in the anthologies Pills Chills Thrills & Heartache, It's All Good!, Pinned Down By Pronouns and The Anti-Capitalism Reader, and in Salon, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Tikkun, Genre, and ZYZZYVA.She is the author of The Lazy Crossdresser (Greenery Press, 2002), a guide for anyone—especially those born male—who feels inadequate in women’s clothing.