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Hazel Jane Plante published her debut novel: Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) (Metonymy Press $18.95) about a queer trans woman's unrequited love for her straight trans friend who died. Plante's experimental story form is also interspersed with encyclopedia entries about a fictional TV show. Mainly, the novel reveals the woman the narrator loved, why she loved her and the depths of what she had lost. For this title, Plante received a Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for both a Publishing Triangle Award and a BC & Yukon Book Prize.
Plante followed up with Any Other City (Arsenal Pulp $22.95), a two-part fictional memoir, ostensibly written by the narrator, Tracy St. Cyr, leader of an indie rock band. Reminiscent of a vinyl record with two sides, Side "A" covers the year 1993 when Tracy arrives in a big city as a fledgling artist who falls in with a cadre of trans women; and Side "B" flashes forward to 2019, when Tracy returns to the same city, now a semi-famous musician, after a long healing period from a traumatic love relationship.
Photo by Agatha K.
BOOKS
Little Blue Encyclopedia (Metonymy Press, 2019) $18.95 9780994047199
Any Other City (Arsenal Pulp, 2023) $22.95 9781551529110
[BCBW 2023]
Plante followed up with Any Other City (Arsenal Pulp $22.95), a two-part fictional memoir, ostensibly written by the narrator, Tracy St. Cyr, leader of an indie rock band. Reminiscent of a vinyl record with two sides, Side "A" covers the year 1993 when Tracy arrives in a big city as a fledgling artist who falls in with a cadre of trans women; and Side "B" flashes forward to 2019, when Tracy returns to the same city, now a semi-famous musician, after a long healing period from a traumatic love relationship.
Photo by Agatha K.
BOOKS
Little Blue Encyclopedia (Metonymy Press, 2019) $18.95 9780994047199
Any Other City (Arsenal Pulp, 2023) $22.95 9781551529110
[BCBW 2023]
