Girlfriends

Seven heartstoppingly gorgeous stories about transgender Gen Z life spanning the Upper Midwest to New York City.

"Like a strange, beautiful, chaotically decorated home for all those who crack its pages."
--Vogue

An NPR Books We Love book for 2023 - Winner of the Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature - Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction - Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompromising and hilarious lucidity. Attending to the intimacy of Gen Z women's lives, these stories move from the provinces to the metropolis, from chaotic student accommodation to insecure jobs, from parties to dates to the nights after, from haplessness to some kind of power.

Funny and devastating, like a trans Mary McCarthy, Zhou depicts with shocking precision the choices and shifts through which we work on each other and ourselves. Tender, merciless, and gracious, Girlfriends is a breath of fresh air.

Author: Emily Zhou
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Littlepuss Press
Published: 10/17/2023
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781736716847


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 10/23/2023

About the Author
Emily Zhou's first book, Girlfriends, won the 2023 Publishing Triangle's Leslie Feinberg Award and was a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction. She is the "Editrix-At-Large" at LittlePuss Press and a fiction editor at Joyland Magazine. Her shorter writing has appeared in Literary Hub, e-flux journal, Xtra, Club Curran, and a few other places. She lives in New York.