{"product_id":"the-call-out-a-novel-in-rhyme-9781644212332","title":"The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that is funny, literary, philosophical, witty, sometimes bitchy and sometimes heartbreaking.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAashvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer, mostly trans women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn. Visiting all the fixtures of fashionable 21st century queer society--picnics, literary readings, health conferences, drag shows, punk houses, community accountability processes, Grindr hookups--\u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out\u003c\/i\u003e also engages with pressing questions around economic precarity, sexual consent, racism in queer spaces, and feminist theory, in the service of asking what it takes to build, or destroy, a marginalized community. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novel written in verse, \u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out\u003c\/i\u003e recalls the Russian literary classic Eugene Onegin, but instead of 19th century Russian aristocrats crudely solved their disagreements with pistols, the participants in this rhyming drama have developed a more refined weapon, the online call-out, a cancel-culture staple. In this passionate tangle of modern relationships, where a barbed tweet can be as dangerous as the narrator's bon-mots, Cat Fitzpatrick has fashioned a modern novel of manners that gives readers access to a vibrant cultural underground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCAT FITZPATRICK\u003c\/b\u003e is the first trans woman to serve as Director of the Women's and Gender Studies program at Rutgers University-Newark, and the Editrix at LittlePuss Press. She is the author of a collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eGlamour­puss \u003c\/i\u003e(Topside Press) and co-edited the anthology \u003ci\u003eMeanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy from Transgender Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the ALA Stonewall Award for Literature. \u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out \u003c\/i\u003eis her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50625645871378,"sku":"9781644212332","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_038b5d37-1776-4a30-a49c-b24d56384a54.jpg?v=1732635020","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-call-out-a-novel-in-rhyme-9781644212332","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}