{"product_id":"terry-dactyl-9781566897419","title":"Terry Dactyl","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom iconic author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore comes a breathless search for intimacy and connection, ranging from club culture to the art world, from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTerry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of dancing queens and late-night house parties just as the AIDS crisis ravages their world. After moving to New York City, Terry finds a new family among gender-bending club kids bonded by pageantry and drugs, fiercely loyal and unapologetic. She lands a job at a Soho gallery, where, after partying all night, she spends her days bringing club culture to the elite art world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty years later, in a panic during the COVID-19 lockdown, Terry returns to a Seattle stifled by gentrification and pandemic isolation until resistance erupts following the murder of George Floyd, and her search for community ignites once again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn propulsive, intoxicating prose, \u003ci\u003eTerry Dactyl\u003c\/i\u003e traces an extraordinary journey from adolescence to adulthood, delivering a vital portrait of queer identity in all its peril and possibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of seven books, and the editor of six anthologies. Her most recent title, \u003ci\u003eTouching the Art\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for a Washington State Book Award and a Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her previous title, \u003ci\u003eThe Freezer Door\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice and a finalist for the PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award. Her new novel is \u003ci\u003eTerry Dactyl\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705516327186,"sku":"9781566897419","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0c66f183-c1ba-4069-b8cd-e06db4b8aa55.jpg?v=1762348486","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/terry-dactyl-9781566897419","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}