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Please Miss

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis

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Please Miss

By: Grace Lavery
Narrated by: Grace Lavery, Daniel Lavery, Marc Vietor
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“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 '60s 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.

©2022 Grace Lavery (P)2022 Seal Press
Biographies & Memoirs Comedy & Humor LGBTQ+ Studies Funny Queer Comedy
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“This is the queer memoir you've been waiting for; a dizzying mix of theory and pastiche, metafiction and memory. Please Miss is Terry Castle meets Lauren Slater meets Michelle Tea; hilarious and sexy and terrifying in its brilliance. But don't worry - Lavery is an avalanche you'll be glad to be buried under.” (Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties)

“Grace Lavery's memoir - if that's what it is? - is a daring, perverse, mind-blowing, intellectual, hilarious, outrageous, inspired work of art that somehow is touchingly sincere while giving no f--ks whatsoever. I read this laughing out loud, clutching my pearls, my mind exploding in wonder. This meditation on trans bodies, queer sex, pop culture, academia, and fantasy rips open bold and badly needed new terrain in literature.” (Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir and Black Wave)

Please Miss is a wickedly smart and filthily funny mosaic of criticism, memoir, and autofiction that is refreshingly avant-garde, profoundly erotic, and as enthralling as an intimate all-night conversation with the brainy high femme BFF you wish you had. I wish it upon everyone.” (Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me)

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This book is incredible

Sonofabitch this fucking book is one of those you have to have a clear mind to read. It goes in and out of fiction, reality, the author’s brilliant brain, it’s just beyond words. It talks about penises and sex a lot so if you’re not into that stuff lol move along. Please give this woman all of your money for this book. This book is one that talks to us trans women who have qualms about what their future of bottom surgery. But this book is very creative and is like the definition of creative nonfiction!!! Please read this!

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Pretentious, predictable, and narcissistic.

To call this book a poorly written exercise in post-hoc rationalization would be to give it far more praise than it deserves,

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