{"title":"Alex Marzano-Lesnevich","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlex Marzano-Lesnevich\u003c\/strong\u003e writes with a powerful blend of memoir and investigative narrative, exploring complex themes of identity, justice, and morality. Their work delves deep into personal and societal stories, offering readers a reflective and thought-provoking experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn books like \u003cem\u003eBoth and Neither\u003c\/em\u003e, Marzano-Lesnevich challenges conventional perspectives with lyrical prose and nuanced insight, making their writing resonate long after the last page is turned. These are books for readers who appreciate intimate, multifaceted storytelling within the \u003cem\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e category.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"both-and-neither-by-alex-marzano-lesnevich-9781474621908","title":"Both and Neither","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeeply moving, hugely readable, politically vital and exquisitely written\u003c\/strong\u003e - MARK HADDON\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGroundbreaking, nothing short of extraordinary: a vital exploration of trans experience across past and present\u003c\/strong\u003e - CELESTE NG\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBoth and Neither\u003c\/i\u003e, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich weaves memoir and history into a singular work that considers how we bear witness to trans lives and how the past persists - intimately, insistently - within the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough meticulous research and vivid storytelling, they illuminate a constellation of historical figures who have made and unmade gender in the public imagination. We meet Joseph Lobdell, a nineteenth-century trans man institutionalised for loving a woman; Gerd Katter, a carpenter and early patient at Berlin's Institute for Sexual Science in the 1920s; Pauli Murray, the visionary thinker whose ideas anticipated feminist and civil rights movements decades ahead of their time; and Claude Cahun, whose radical art and self-creation defied gender norms throughout the first half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs history unfolds, memoir bleeds into the archive. The author turns a clear-eyed gaze on their own life and loves, as they trace their own becoming alongside those who came before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVital, timely and beautifully executed, \u003ci\u003eBoth and Neither\u003c\/i\u003e fuses maverick scholarship with profound emotional intelligence to recover a history long obscured. In doing so, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich confirms their place as one of the most ambitious and original writers working today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67722142941420,"sku":"9781474621908","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781474621908-both-and-neither-1.jpg?v=1791923526"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/alex-marzano-lesnevich.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}