A Dream of a Woman - by Casey Plett (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (<i>Little Fish</i>) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Casey Plett's 2018 novel <i>Little Fish</i> won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award (Canada). Her latest work, <i>A Dream of a Woman</i>, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection <i>A Safe Girl to Love</i>. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, and in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days. <p/> In "Hazel and Christopher," two childhood friends reconnect as adults after one of them has transitioned. In "Perfect Places," a woman grapples with undesirability as she navigates fetish play with a man. In "Couldn't Hear You Talk Anymore," the narrator reflects on past trauma and what might have been as she recalls tender moments with another trans woman. <p/> An ethereal meditation on partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and love, the stories in <i>A Dream of a Woman</i> buzz with quiet intensity and the intimate complexities of being human.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Casey Plett is the author of the novel <i>Little Fish</i> and the short story collection <i>A Safe Girl to Love</i>. She is the winner of the Amazon First Novel Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction. She co-edited <i>Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers</i> which won the ALA Stonewall Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and has written for <i>The New York Times, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Maclean's</i>, and <i>them</i>, among other publications.
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