Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab
10 best books like Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (Shani Mootoo): Kiss Number 8, The House of Impossible Beauties, Little Fish, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself, Even this Page is White, Brother, Holding Still For As Long As Possible, Next Year, for Sure, Windward Heights, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
| Author | Colleen A.F. Venable |
Amanda can’t figure out what’s so exciting about kissing. It’s just a lot of teeth clanking, germ swapping, closing of eyes so you can’t see that godzilla-sized zit just inches from your own hormonal monstrosity. All of her seven kisses had been horrible in different ways, but nothing compared...
The House of Impossible Beauties
| Author | Joseph Cassara |
| ISBN | 0062677004 |
It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside...
| Author | Casey Plett |
| ISBN | 1551527200 |
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
In this extraordinary debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman who comes across...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
| Author | Olaudah Equiano |
| ISBN | 0312442033 |
Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition reproduces...
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
| ISBN | 1551526417 |
Amazingly, this is not the first book of poems by a transgender or gender fluid Canadian person-of-color that I've read in the last two weeks (the previous was A Place Called No Homeland, also highly recommended.) Another great read for National Poetry Month.
The subheadings of these poems...
| Author | David Chariandy |
| ISBN | 1635572045 |
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991.
With shimmering...
| Author | Zoe Whittall |
| ISBN | 0887842348 |
What is it like to grow into adulthood with the war on terror as your defining political memory, with SARS and Hurricane Katrina as your backdrop? In this robust, elegantly plotted, and ultimately life-affirming novel, Zoe Whittall presents a dazzling portrait of a generation we've rarely seen in...
| Author | Zoey Leigh Peterson |
| ISBN | 0385686773 |
In this moving and enormously entertaining debut novel, longtime romantic partners Kathryn and Chris experiment with an open relationship and reconsider everything they thought they knew about love.
After nine years together, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would...
| Author | Maryse Condé |
| ISBN | 1569472165 |
Windward Heights
is a retelling of Wuthering Heights, set in the Caribbean just after the abolition of slavery in the late 19th and early 20th century. In Maryse Condé’s hands the classic gothic tragedy becomes more politically charged, taking in decades of turbulent history and social change...
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
| Author | Dr. Gabor Maté |
| ISBN | 0676973124 |
In this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical doctor and bestselling author Gabor Maté shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis...
| Author | Katherine Collette |
| ISBN | 1925603601 |
Germaine Johnson may not be all that good with people but she’s great with numbers. Unfortunately, as she discovers after the incident at Wallace Insurance, there are very few openings these days for senior mathematicians.
Then her cousin gets her a job at the council. On the Senior Citizens...
