Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis

By Grace E. Lavery

Book Overview

"The queer memoir you've been waiting for"--Carmen Maria Machado Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her "penis problem," she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives. Misadventures abound: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard and is reprogrammed as a sixties femmebot; she writes a Juggalo Ghostbusters prequel and a socialist manifesto disguised as a porn parody of a quiz show. Or is it vice versa? As Grace fumbles toward a new trans identity, she tries on dozens of different voices, creating a coat of many colors. With more dick jokes than a transsexual should be able to pull off, Please Miss gives us what we came for, then slaps us in the face and orders us to come again.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541620658
• ISBN13: 9781541620650
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 10.3"