Terry Dactyl

Author(s): Bernstein Sycamore, Mattilda,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 13/11/2025,
Pagination: 358 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Cipher Press,
Published By: Cipher Press,
Book Classification: Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest,
Dimensions: 198 x 129
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781917008150

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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.

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