{"product_id":"9780956971975","title":"Tiny Pieces of Skull: Or, a Lesson in Manners","description":"'WINNER 2016 LAMBDA BEST TRANS FICTION LITERARY AWARD'\u003cp\u003eIn the 1980s, poet and activist Roz Kaveney wrote a novel, 'Tiny Pieces of Skull', about trans street life and bar life in London and Chicago in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elate 1970s. Much admired in manuscript by writers from Kathy Acker to Neil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGaiman, it has never seen print until now...Funny and terrifying by turns,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand full of glimpses of other lives, it is the story of how beautiful\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatasha persuades clever Annabelle to run away from her life and have\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eadventures, more adventures than either of them quite meant her to have...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A certain classic, a definitive portrait of trans outside the niceties of middle class daydreams. Brava, sister mine.' - Kate Bornstein, writer and activist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Even now I find it hard to put into words quite how moving and marvellous I found it. It's an astonishing, troubling book; scalpel-sharp; brittle; bleak and brave. I feel sure it will upset a great number of people in all the right ways. In fact, I hope it does: literature should be a call to arms, not a sleeping-pill. Congratulations on bringing this story out of the dark.' - Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat and The Gospel of Loki\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Team Angelica Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013193646320,"sku":"9780956971975","price":16.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780956971975_p0.jpg?v=1763881675","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780956971975","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}