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<title>Katherine Packert Burke - Free Library Land Online - Anthologies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/katherine-packert-burke/still_life.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/katherine-packert-burke/still_life_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="Still Life" alt ="Still Life"/></a><br//><p><strong>A profound and piercing tribute to messy webs of queer friendship and to what is left behind in transition.</strong></p><p>Everything in Edith's life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend, Val, is dead.</p><p>Still Life volleys between the present and recent past, chronicling the lives of three women&#8212;one cis, two trans, all forever entwined. Edith was a bumbling "boy" pre-transition, in love with Tessa, enamored by Val, and drowning in Boston. She and Tessa called each other Joni and Joan, an homage to the musical backdrop of their fledgling adulthood. When Edith decides to leave behind the East Coast for graduate school, she begins a yearslong journey away from the person she loves most and toward a hazy new understanding of who she will become.</p><p>In the present, Edith visits Boston feeling like a failure of a writer, a...]]></description>
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