Tiny Pieces of Skull

Or, a Lesson in Manners

Paperback, 188 pages

English language

Published Jan. 29, 2015

ISBN:
978-0-9569719-7-5
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OCLC Number:
910943751

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In the 1980s, poet and activist Roz Kaveney wrote a novel, Tiny Pieces of Skull, about trans street life and bar life in London and Chicago in the late 1970s. Much admired in manuscript by writers from Kathy Acker to Neil Gaiman, it has never seen print until now ... Funny and terrifying by turns, and full of glimpses of other lives, it is the story of how beautiful Natasha persuades clever Annabelle to run away from her life and have adventures, more adventures than either of them quite meant her to have.

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Amazingly written book on 70s trans street life

I picked this one up thanks to transfemreview.com and I am glad to have done so. I loved the prose and all of the imperfect, sometimes annoying and very human trans women in this book; loved reading about them whoring, living and doing smaller and bigger crimes. Some horrid assault in these stories too, but without feeling like the trauma porn many trans stories become, or made less serious than it is. The book somewhat reminded me of the "dangerous stories" intro to Kai Cheng Thom's "Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars", and I love to read a dangerous story or five.

Subjects

  • Transgender people
  • Nineteen seventies
  • Fiction