![]() ![]() ![]() Even so, I found it more of a healing book than a hurting one. ![]() Readers may want to be careful around Thom’s descriptions of assault, police brutality and self-harm. The story doesn’t pull punches on discussions of trauma and violence. “A spark jumped from my lips, skipped off my palm, and darted…The screen exploded in a glorious symphony of electricity and shattering glass, and a thousand razor shards flew through the air and turned into crimson butterflies that danced through the room on their way out the window.” “Instead of kicking, I blew a kiss at the TV,” the novel’s unnamed narrator recounts. Every sentence feels like a Baz Luhrmann blockbuster or the Harley Quinn dream sequence from “The Suicide Squad”, with descriptions leaping off the page to pull you into their fantastical world. “Fierce Femmes” follows a young, first-generation Chinese-American girl’s journey of self-discovery and recovery with glittering prose. However, “Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir” is far from a typical story. ![]() Running away from home, reinventing yourself and encountering roadblocks along the way – it’s a typical structure for a typical coming-of-age novel. ![]()
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