{"product_id":"girlfriends-by-emily-zhou","title":"Girlfriends by Emily Zhou","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeven heartstoppingly gorgeous stories about transgender Gen Z life spanning the Upper Midwest to New York City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Like a strange, beautiful, chaotically decorated home for all those who crack its pages.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Books We Love book for 2023 • Winner of the Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature • Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompromising and hilarious lucidity. Attending to the intimacy of Gen Z women's lives, these stories move from the provinces to the metropolis, from chaotic student accommodation to insecure jobs, from parties to dates to the nights after, from haplessness to some kind of power.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFunny and devastating, like a trans Mary McCarthy, Zhou depicts with shocking precision the choices and shifts through which we work on each other and ourselves. Tender, merciless, and gracious, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirlfriends\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a breath of fresh air.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEmily Zhou\u003c\/strong\u003e's first book, \u003ci\u003eGirlfriends\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2023 Publishing Triangle's Leslie Feinberg Award and was a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction. She is the \"Editrix-At-Large\" at LittlePuss Press and a fiction editor at \u003ci\u003eJoyland\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine. Her shorter writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ee-flux journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eXtr\u003c\/i\u003e a, \u003ci\u003eClub Curran\u003c\/i\u003e, and a few other places. She lives in New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Booktique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67718968377404,"sku":null,"price":30.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/4879\/8012\/files\/9781736716847_cfl.jpg?v=1792533271","url":"https:\/\/www.booktique.ca\/products\/girlfriends-by-emily-zhou","provider":"Booktique","version":"1.0","type":"link"}