Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis

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A speculative memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, refractedthrough pop culture, queer theory, film, TV, literature, and (what feelslike) 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 theoryand pastiche, metafiction and memory. Please Miss is Terry Castlemeets Lauren Slater meets Michelle Tea; hilarious and sexy and terrifyingin its brilliance. But don't worry - Lavery is an avalanche you'll be glad tobe buried under.' - Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the DreamHouse 'This book reframes the question of transition from the familiar journeyfrom A to B, and replaces that journey with a can't-look-away performanceof wit, language, irreverence, and delight so compelling that a reader forgetsabout 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 thehistory and theory of aesthetics and interpretation, with particularinterests in psychoanalysis, literary realism, andqueer and trans cultures. Her first book, Quaint, Exquisite:Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan, was publishedby Princeton University Press in 2019, and her scholarly essayshave been published in CriticalInquiry, Differences, Social Text Online, Transgender StudiesQuarterly and more.