Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. Enjoy being touched by the sparkle, warmth, community, violence and fierceness of the world Kai Cheng Thom has created.” – Emma Watsonįierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. “With Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, you really get the sense of creativity and invention that comes from becoming your own woman – an artist of your own identity This is writing at its best. The illustrations, by Wai-Yant Li and Kai Yun Ching, are saturated with colour and sparkling with invention, and Thom’s gentle, rhythmic text resonates like a wise old fairy tale that has been told and retold, and like the mother’s song, passed down from one generation to the next.” – Quill and Quire (STARRED REVIEW) Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir “An exquisitely rendered picture book about gender and identity. But they find comfort in the loving arms of their mother, who always offers them the same loving refrain: “whatever you dream of / i believe you can be / from the stars in the sky to the fish in the sea.” The only problem is they can’t decide what to be: a boy or a girl? A bird or a fish? A flower or a shooting star? At school, though, they must endure inquisitive looks and difficult questions from the other children, and have trouble finding friends who will accept them for who they are. And Miu Lan is not just any child, but one who can change into any shape they can imagine. In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon are in the sky, a child is born in a little blue house on a hill. A relevant tale of love and acceptance that can find a home in any children’s collection.” – Kirkus Reviewsįeatured on CTV’s The Social and in The New York Times
“ This book’s themes can resonate with any child who feels excluded (or excludes others) and can also open up conversations about nonbinary gender identities. From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea
0 kommentar(er)
