Hazel was in a stage of proto-transness, a stage in which she was terrified of herself and had no idea why. They were on the phone and about to start high school. They talked about gayness exactly once, just after Hazel and her mom moved across the province. They were hyper and laughing hard, and then her eyes were close to the freckles on his shoulders. When they first touched each other they were eight, sleeping in an old inner room without windows in the basement.
Mostly, in that time she just loved being Christopher’s best friend. If you had pressed Hazel as a child, she maybe could’ve admitted she was jealous. They lived in a cul-de-sac next to a canola field in a house with a wide yard surrounded by poplars they were always renovating their basement. But Hazel never thought of her unhappy childhood as horrific, and Christopher’s family was not only happy but rich. When Hazel grew up and moved out of the prairies, she would learn from movies and the news that small towns were supposed to be poor and dying. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). In “Couldn’t Hear You Talk Anymore,” the narrator reflects on past trauma and what might have been as she recalls tender moments with another trans woman.Īn ethereal meditation on partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and love, the stories in A Dream of a Woman buzz with quiet intensity and the intimate complexities of being human. In “Perfect Places,” a woman grapples with undesirability as she navigates fetish play with a man. In “Hazel and Christopher,” two childhood friends reconnect as adults after one of them has transitioned. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, and in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. Casey Plett’s 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award (Canada).
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