Overview
Itās 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who works in conservation at the Met, she spends her free time scouting the cityās street art, hoping something might spark inspiration. Instead, everything looks like a dead end. And art isnāt the only thing that feels wrong: wherever she turns, her gender identity clashes with the rest of her life. Her relationship, once anchored by shared queerness, is falling apart as her boyfriend Lukas increasingly seems to be attracted to Dawn only when sheās at her most masculine. Meanwhile at work, Dawn has to present as female, even on the days when that isnāt true. Either way, her difference feels like a liability. Ā
Then, one day at work, Dawn finds something hidden behind the endpaper of an old book: the torn-off cover of a ā50s lesbian pulp novel, Turn Her About. On the front is a campy illustration of a woman looking into a handheld mirror and seeing a manās face. And on the back is a love letter. Ā
Dawn latches onto the coincidence, becoming obsessed with tracking down the noteās author. Her fixation only increases when her best friend Jae is injured in a hate crime, for which Dawn feels responsible. As Dawn searches for the letterās author, she is also looking for herself. She tries to understand how to live in a world that doesnāt see her as she truly is, how to get unstuck in her gender, and how to rediscover her art, and she canāt shake the feeling that the noteās author might be able to help guide her to the answers.Ā
A sharply written, deeply evocative story about what it means to live authenticallyāeven within an identity whose parameters have not yet been definedāEndpapers will appeal to readers of queer, nonbinary, or trans fiction like Torrey Petersā Detransition, Baby as well as anyone who loves character-driven, setting-rich stories like Tell the Wolves Iām Home or The Immortalists.Ā
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This book title, Endpapers, ISBN: 9781643755403, by Jennifer Savran Kelly, published by Algonquin Books (December 5, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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