01791cam a2200325 i 4500 1651061033 TxAuBib 20241029120000.0 240904s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781324076360 HRD 28.99 1324076364 HRD 28.99 (OCoLC)1454598229 TxAuBib rda Burke, Katherine Packert. Still life [BOOK] : a novel / Katherine Packert Burke. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. ©2024. 268 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Everything in Edith's life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead. Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, chronicling the lives of three women -- one cis, two trans, all forever entwined. Edith was a bumbling "boy" pre-transition, in love with Tessa, enamored by Val, and drowning in Boston. She and Tessa called each other Joni and Joan, an homage to the musical backdrop of their fledgling adulthood. When Edith decides to leave behind the East Coast for graduate school, she begins a yearslong journey away from the person she loves most and toward a hazy new understanding of who she will become.". 20241029. Transgender people Fiction. Sexual minorities Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Authors Fiction. LGBTQIA+ fiction.