Girlfriends - Softcover

Zhou, Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1736716840 ISBN 13: 9781736716847

Publisher: LittlePuss Press, 2023

Synopsis

Seven heartstoppingly gorgeous stories about transgender Gen Z life spanning the Upper Midwest to New York City.

“Like a strange, beautiful, chaotically decorated home for all those who crack its pages.”
—Vogue 

An NPR Books We Love book for 2023 • Winner of the Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature • Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction

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.

About this title

About the Author

Emily Zhou’s first book, Girlfriends, won the 2023 Publishing Triangle's Leslie Feinberg Award and was a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction. She is the “Editrix-At-Large” at LittlePuss Press and a fiction editor at Joyland Magazine. Her shorter writing has appeared in Literary Hub, e-flux journal, Xtra, Club Curran, and a few other places. She lives in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: LittlePuss Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1736716840
• ISBN 13: 9781736716847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184