Name: Terry Dactyl
Price: 577.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
ISBN: 9781917008150

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Cipher Press

Author

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Year

2025

Pages

358

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.80 x 12.90 cm

ISBN13

9781917008150

Terry Dactyl

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Author) · Cipher Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Terry Dactyl"

From a LAMBDA award-winning author, an electric and haunting dive into New York City club culture, the elite art world, the relationships we crave, and the addictions we hold dear, told through one iconoclastic trans girl’s search for connection, from growing up in the midst of the AIDS crisis to the panic of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of dancing queens and late-night house parties just as the AIDS crisis ravages their world. After moving to New York City, Terry finds a new family among gender-bending club kids bonded by pageantry and drugs, fiercely loyal and unapologetic. She lands a job at a Soho gallery, where, after partying all night, she spends her days bringing club culture to the elite art world. Twenty years later, in a panic during the COVID-19 lockdown, Terry returns to a Seattle stifled by gentrification and pandemic isolation until resistance erupts following the murder of George Floyd, and her search for community ignites once again. In propulsive, intoxicating prose, Terry Dactyl traces an extraordinary journey from adolescence to adulthood, delivering a vital portrait of queer identity in all its peril and possibility.