The Call Out: A Novel in Rhyme - Softcover

Cat Fitzpatrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1644212331 ISBN 13: 9781644212332

Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2023

Synopsis

Anvi, 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 - The Call-Out 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 marginalised community. A novel written in verse, The Call-Out 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.

About this title

About the Author

CAT FITZPATRICK 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, Glamour­puss (Topside Press) and co-edited the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction & Fantasy from Transgender Writers, which won the ALA Stonewall Award for Literature. The Call-Out is her first novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1644212331
• ISBN 13: 9781644212332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144