Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

InFierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir, a haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city where the sky is always grey in search of love and sisterhoodand finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. (From Metonymy Press)

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