Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir
At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age.
A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood-and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. But when disaster strikes, can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?
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Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performer, lasagna lover, and wicked witch based in Toronto, unceded Indigenous territory. She is the author of several award-winning works including the poetry collection a place called No Homeland, the children's book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, and the essay collection I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir is her first novel.
Named one of the best books by trans authors in O: The Oprah Magazine
Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club
"Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars uses its warmhearted critique of the conventional tropes of the trans memoir as a way to reinvent those very tropes in fabulist Technicolor." -Jacob Wren, Montreal Review of Books
"Thom has written a breakout first novel of a young Asian trans femme writer dreaming her own getting free, building complicated family through all her changes, and I am so grateful." -Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Bitch Media
