Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir

By Kai Cheng Thom

At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age, merging prose, poetry, fiction, and memoir genres.

A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood—and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles.  There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang on glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere.  But when disaster strikes, can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?