1,001 Novels: A Library of America
Manywhere (2022)
by Morgan Thomas
Jamestown, Virginia
Virginia: 2/17
Manywhere is a collection of short stories, many featuring "genderqueer" protagonists, set all over the rural and semi-rural south. Many, many diversity points scored between the different stories and their locations and their characters: Rural, socio-economic, LGBTQ etc. One story is historical fiction about an immigrant who lived as a man for decades before revealing themselves as a biological woman. Another is about a transman who buys a pregnancy bump from Amazon and wears it to work, where her co-workers aren't aware of her background. Not all the stories are about "genderqueer" characters- one story involves a young woman living in rural Oklahoma who becomes a surrogate for another couple after having a child of her own.
The language is haunting and poetic, it was a good Audiobook to pick because of the lyricism of the language.
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