{"product_id":"any-other-city-by-hazel-jane-plante-9781551529110","title":"Any Other City","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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\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\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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHazel Jane Plante has given us another inventive wonder to sing about. \u003ci\u003eAny Other City\u003c\/i\u003e is a fictive memoir, a letter to two ex-lovers, a portrait of a trans punk musician as a young artist, and a healing spell for collective release. From Side A to Side B, it's sweet and sly, hot and wise; it glimmers with humble brilliance. Like the best mixtape a friend-crush could give you, this book will hit all the messy big feelings and impress you to pieces in the process.\u003c\/b\u003e — Megan Milks, author of \u003ci\u003eMargaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI loved this book. Plante masterfully depicts the plurality that is woven into the lives of transwomen. \u003ci\u003eAny Other City\u003c\/i\u003e dances you through the walls of fact and fiction, of time and place, to give us a heart-wrenchingly beautiful glimpse of a life lived through many lives. This is the vulnerable, loving, gorgeous, sexy trans dyke novel I didn't know I needed. Like a timeless song, there is always another layer, another meaning, another story, within these words. \u003ci\u003eAny Other City\u003c\/i\u003e not only shows us thrilling trans-positive sex, it also provides a picture of healing from an abusive ex. All with so much love, it hurts so good to read.\u003c\/b\u003e — jiaqing wilson-yang, author of \u003ci\u003eSmall Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHazel Jane Plante's \u003ci\u003eAny Other City\u003c\/i\u003e is absorbing, funny, hot, tender, and punk AF. Her characters are so vividly rendered that it feels like Plante has actually manifested her novel's conceit: a musician who is a DIY punk icon and a trans woman invites a fictionalized version of Plante to collaboratively write a hybridized, experimental memoir. \u003ci\u003eAny Other City\u003c\/i\u003e will get inside your head and your heart, and it will change you in the best possible ways.\u003c\/b\u003e — Andrea Warner, author of \u003ci\u003eBuffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46710533521644,"sku":"9781551529110","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11026503482740.jpg?v=1754154736","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/any-other-city-by-hazel-jane-plante-9781551529110","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}