Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
A speculative memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, refracted through pop culture, queer theory, film, TV, literature, and (what feels like) stand-up comedy - like The Argonauts caught in a hall of mirrors, with alot more sex and humour.
'This is the queer memoir you've been waiting for; a dizzying mix of theory and pastiche, metafiction and memory. Please Miss is Terry Castle meets Lauren Slater meets Michelle Tea; hilarious and sexy and terrifying in its brilliance. But don't worry - Lavery is an avalanche you'll be glad to be buried under.' - Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the DreamHouse
'This book reframes the question of transition from the familiar journey from A to B, and replaces that journey with a can't-look-away performance of wit, language, irreverence, and delight so compelling that a reader forgets about destinations all together.' - Torrey Peters, author ofDetransition, Baby
Grace Lavery is a writer, editor, and academic living inBrooklyn, NY. As an Associate Professor of English, CriticalTheory, and Gender & Women's Studies at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, her research explores the history and theory of aesthetics and interpretation, with particular interests in psychoanalysis, literary realism, and queer and trans cultures. Her first book, Quaint, Exquisite:Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan, was published by Princeton University Press in 2019, and her scholarly essays have been published in CriticalInquiry, Differences, Social Text Online, Transgender StudiesQuarterly and more.
Author: Grace Lavery
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Published: 2022, Daunt Books, United Kingdom
Genre: Autobiography: General
A speculative memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, refracted through pop culture, queer theory, film, TV, literature, and (what feels like) stand-up comedy - like The Argonauts caught in a hall of mirrors, with alot more sex and humour.
'This is the queer memoir you've been waiting for; a dizzying mix of theory and pastiche, metafiction and memory. Please Miss is Terry Castle meets Lauren Slater meets Michelle Tea; hilarious and sexy and terrifying in its brilliance. But don't worry - Lavery is an avalanche you'll be glad to be buried under.' - Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the DreamHouse
'This book reframes the question of transition from the familiar journey from A to B, and replaces that journey with a can't-look-away performance of wit, language, irreverence, and delight so compelling that a reader forgets about destinations all together.' - Torrey Peters, author ofDetransition, Baby
Grace Lavery is a writer, editor, and academic living inBrooklyn, NY. As an Associate Professor of English, CriticalTheory, and Gender & Women's Studies at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, her research explores the history and theory of aesthetics and interpretation, with particular interests in psychoanalysis, literary realism, and queer and trans cultures. Her first book, Quaint, Exquisite:Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan, was published by Princeton University Press in 2019, and her scholarly essays have been published in CriticalInquiry, Differences, Social Text Online, Transgender StudiesQuarterly and more.