5/15/2023 0 Comments A Dream of a Woman by Casey PlettHer first collection of short stories, A Safe Girl to Love, was published in 2014. Her novel Little Fish won the Lambda Literary Award, Amazon First Novel Award and the Firecracker Award for Fiction. ( From Arsenal Pulp Press)Ī Dream of a Woman was on the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist.Ĭasey Plett is a Windsor-based writer who was born in Manitoba and has lived in Oregon and New York. In "Couldn't Hear You Talk Anymore," the narrator reflects on her tumultuous life and what might have been as she recalls tender moments with another trans woman.Īn ethereal meditation on partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and love, the stories in A Dream of a Woman buzz with quiet intensity and the intimate complexities of being human. In "Perfect Places," a woman grapples with undesirability as she navigates fetish play with a man. In "Hazel and Christopher," two childhood friends reconnect as adults after one of them has transitioned. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award.
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