Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary
Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel
Award (Canada). Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her
first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe
Girl to Love. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult
lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie
high-rises and New York warehouses, and in freezing Canadian winters
and drizzly Oregon days.
In "Hazel and
Christopher," two childhood friends reconnect as adults after
one of them has transitioned. In "Perfect Places," a woman
grapples with undesirability as she navigates fetish play with a man.
In "Couldn't Hear You Talk Anymore," the narrator reflects
on past trauma and what might have been as she recalls tender moments
with another trans woman.
An ethereal
meditation on partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and
love, the stories in A Dream of a Woman buzz with quiet
intensity and the intimate complexities of being human.