Casey Plett

Cat Fitzpatrick

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Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers

Meanwhile, Elsewhere

A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that is funny, literary, philosophical, witty, sometimes bitchy and sometimes heartbreaking. Anvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer, mostly trans women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn. Visiting all the fixtures of fashionable 21st century queer society—picnics, literary readings, health conferences, drag shows, punk houses, community accountability processes, Grindr hookups—The Call-Out also engages with pressing questions around economic precarity, sexual consent, racism in queer spaces, and feminist theory, in the service of asking what it takes to build, or destroy, a marginalized community. A novel written in verse, The Call-Out recalls the Russian literary classic Eugene Onegin, but instead of 19th century Russian aristocrats crudely solved their disagreements with pistols, the participants in this rhyming drama have developed a more refined weapon, the online call-out, a cancel-culture staple. In this passionate tangle of modern relationships, where a barbed tweet can be as dangerous as the narrator’s bon-mots, Cat Fitzpatrick has fashioned a modern novel of manners that gives readers access to a vibrant cultural underground.

A Novel in Rhyme

The Call-Out

How many errors can one person make? Enough, it seems, to fill a poetry book (And poetry is also a mistake). Oh gentle reader, open it and look; A gallery of girls Cat used to be, Expressing plainly, though in janky verse, Their hope, confusion and insouciancy; Embarrassments all giving way to worse; Stories of hiking, or plastic surgery Or office jobs, or of this frightful dress She wore when she was twenty; Sympathy And ridicule and even ruthlessness Towards her past. What does she have to lose, As long as you find something you can use?

Cat Fitzpatrick

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