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Any Other City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781551529110)
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Hazel Jane Plante
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xBy the author of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian): the fictional memoir of a trans indie rock musician that reveals how the act of creation can heal trauma and even change the past.
Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock band Static Saints. Side A is a snapshot of her life from 1993, when Tracy arrives in a labyrinthine city as a fledgling artist and unexpectedly falls in with a clutch of trans women, including the iconoclastic visual artist Sadie Tang.
Side B finds Tracy, now a semi-famous musician, in the same strange city in 2019, healing from a traumatic event through songwriting, queer kinship, and sexual pleasure. While writing her memoir, Tracy perceives how the past reverberates into the present, how a body is a time machine, how there's power in refusing to dust the past with powdered sugar, and how seedlings begin to slowly grow in empty spaces after things have been broken open.Motifs recur like musical phrases, and traces of what used to be there peek through, like a palimpsest. Any Other City is a novel about friendship and other forms of love, travelling in a body across decades, and transmuting trauma through art making and queer sex--a love letter to trans femmes and to art itself.
Author: Hazel Jane Plante
ISBN-10: 1551529114
ISBN-13: 9781551529110
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2023
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.90w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 05/01/2023
Foreword 04/17/2023
Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock band Static Saints. Side A is a snapshot of her life from 1993, when Tracy arrives in a labyrinthine city as a fledgling artist and unexpectedly falls in with a clutch of trans women, including the iconoclastic visual artist Sadie Tang.
Side B finds Tracy, now a semi-famous musician, in the same strange city in 2019, healing from a traumatic event through songwriting, queer kinship, and sexual pleasure. While writing her memoir, Tracy perceives how the past reverberates into the present, how a body is a time machine, how there's power in refusing to dust the past with powdered sugar, and how seedlings begin to slowly grow in empty spaces after things have been broken open.Motifs recur like musical phrases, and traces of what used to be there peek through, like a palimpsest. Any Other City is a novel about friendship and other forms of love, travelling in a body across decades, and transmuting trauma through art making and queer sex--a love letter to trans femmes and to art itself.
Author: Hazel Jane Plante
ISBN-10: 1551529114
ISBN-13: 9781551529110
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2023
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.90w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 05/01/2023
Foreword 04/17/2023
By Hazel Jane Plante
xHazel Jane Plante is a librarian, cat photographer, and writer. Her debut novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) (Metonymy Press, 2019) won a Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award. She releases music under the name lo-fi lioness and helms the podcast t4t, which is about writing while trans.
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