Any Other City

by Plante, Hazel Jane
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ISBN: 9781551529110
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By the author of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian): the fictional memoir of a trans indie rock musician that reveals how the act of creation can heal trauma and even change the past.


Any Other
City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved
indie rock band Static Saints. Side A is a snapshot of her life from 1993, when
Tracy arrives in a labyrinthine city as a fledgling artist and unexpectedly falls
in with a clutch of trans women, including the iconoclastic visual artist Sadie
Tang.

Side B finds
Tracy, now a semi-famous musician, in the same strange city in 2019, healing
from a traumatic event through songwriting, queer kinship, and sexual pleasure.
While writing her memoir, Tracy perceives how the past reverberates into the
present, how a body is a time machine, how there's power in refusing to dust
the past with powdered sugar, and how seedlings begin to slowly grow in empty
spaces after things have been broken open.

Motifs recur
like musical phrases, and traces of what used to be there peek through, like a
palimpsest. Any Other City is a novel about friendship and other forms
of love, travelling in a body across decades, and transmuting trauma through
art making and queer sex--a love letter to trans femmes and to art itself.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Plante, Hazel Jane
  • ISBN: 9781551529110
  • Condition: New
  • Number Of Pages: 352
  • Publication Year: 2023
Language: English

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