{"product_id":"please-miss-a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-penis-9781541620650","title":"Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The queer memoir you've been waiting for\"--Carmen Maria Machado\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace 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 \u003ci\u003eSunset Boulevard \u003c\/i\u003eand is reprogrammed as a sixties femmebot; she writes a Juggalo \u003ci\u003eGhostbusters \u003c\/i\u003eprequel 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith more dick jokes than a transsexual should be able to pull off, \u003ci\u003ePlease Miss\u003c\/i\u003e gives us what we came for, then slaps us in the face and orders us to come again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrace Lavery\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. A prominent public intellectual and activist, she has contributed to the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e New Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThem\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e. She's been sober since January 2016 and \"full time\" as a trans person since March 2018. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seal Press (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382786724114,"sku":"9781541620650","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6df3a3b1-eb39-4c32-a3a6-7f4ad47e2975.jpg?v=1728717899","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/please-miss-a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-penis-9781541620650","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}