{"product_id":"any-other-city-by-hazel-jane-plante","title":"Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)\u003c\/i\u003e: the fictional memoir of a trans indie rock musician that reveals how the act of creation can heal trauma and even change the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAny Other City\u003c\/i\u003e is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock band Static Saints. Side A is a snapshot of her life from 1993, when Tracy arrives in a labyrinthine city as a fledgling artist and unexpectedly falls in with a clutch of trans women, including the iconoclastic visual artist Sadie Tang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide B finds Tracy, now a semi-famous musician, in the same strange city in 2019, healing from a traumatic event through songwriting, queer kinship, and sexual pleasure. While writing her memoir, Tracy perceives how the past reverberates into the present, how a body is a time machine, how there's power in refusing to dust the past with powdered sugar, and how seedlings begin to slowly grow in empty spaces after things have been broken open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMotifs recur like musical phrases, and traces of what used to be there peek through, like a palimpsest. \u003ci\u003eAny Other City\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about friendship and other forms of love, travelling in a body across decades, and transmuting trauma through art making and queer sex--a love letter to trans femmes and to art itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \/ 352 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43810814820567,"sku":"","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/9781551529110.jpg?v=1683638477","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/any-other-city-by-hazel-jane-plante","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}