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New Books and Staff Picks from the Toronto Women's Bookstore
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SOMETHING FOR SCHOOL
Hyun Young Lee, Kane/Miller
It's the first day of kindergarten and Yoon is very excited, until the teacher divides the class into 'girls' and 'boys' and Yoon is caught in the middle. Everyone thinks she is a boy because of her short hair. Although she explains she is a girl, she feels that she needs "something" to make sure the confusion and fuss stops. She finds a solution but will it work? Although it is great to see the complexity of gender addressed in children's books, make sure you read this with the little ones in your life and encourage them to take the discussion/story further.
THE SLOW FIX
Ivan Coyote, Arsenal Pulp Press
With The Slow Fix, acclaimed Canadian author Ivan Coyote returns to her short story roots in a collection that is disarming, warm, and funny while at the same time subverting our pre-conceived notions of gender roles. In "By Any Other Name" Ivan gets into some serious male bonding with her Uncle Rob; in "The Curse?" a cousin's stepdaughter helps her to overcome her lifelong dread of buying tampons; and in the title story, she does her best to fix what's wrong in the world by telling the homophobe in the barber's seat next to hers to shut up.
SO MANY WAYS TO SLEEP BADLY
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, City Lights Books
In So Many Ways To Sleep Badly, Sycamore, editor of Nobody Passes, writes about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco - battling roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically bad sex, internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, chronic pain, the gay vote, vegan restaurants, sleeping pills and incest. The novel unveils a gender-bending queer world where nothing flows smoothly, except for those sudden moments when everything becomes lighter or brighter or easier to imagine. Check out Mattilda's hilarious and political blog at http://no bodypasses.blogspot.com/
THE TRANSGENDER CHILD: A HANDBOOK FOR FAMILIES AND PROFESSIONALS
Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper, Cleis Press
The Transgender Child is a comprehensive, first-of-itskind guidebook for the unique challenges that thousands of families face raising children who step outside of the pink or blue box. Providing extensive research and interviews as well as...