Please Miss, Grace Lavery
Please Miss, Grace Lavery
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

Please Miss
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis

Author: Grace Lavery

Narrator: Grace Lavery, Daniel Lavery, Marc Vietor

Unabridged: 7 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 02/08/2022

Synopsis

“The queer memoir you’ve been waiting for”—Carmen Maria MachadoGrace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives. Misadventures abound: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard and is reprogrammed as a sixties femmebot; she writes a Juggalo Ghostbusters prequel and a socialist manifesto disguised as a porn parody of a quiz show. Or is it vice versa? As Grace fumbles toward a new trans identity, she tries on dozens of different voices, creating a coat of many colors.With more dick jokes than a transsexual should be able to pull off, Please Miss gives us what we came for, then slaps us in the face and orders us to come again.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barry on January 25, 2022

come for the blissfully brash exploration of transness, stay for the QI porn parody.......more

Goodreads review by Areeb on January 25, 2022

WOW. This was... something else entirely and goes without saying obviously that it could only have been written by an academic. I rarely get a chance to read something quite so demanding, a book that warrants one's full attention, that is not interested in making the reading experience easy or linea......more

Goodreads review by Sybil on March 17, 2022

At first, when I discovered GRACE LAVERY'S PLEASE MISS! A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGER PENIS i found myself blindsided, unsettled, squicked out, yet incongruous titillated. It seemed mostly about her Penis, it's shape, reliability, erraticness, undissassiate ability, parties it goes to and movies i......more

Goodreads review by Doreen on February 28, 2022

2/25/2022 Full review tk at TheFrumiousConsortium.net. 2/28/2022 Well, that was certainly... something. In all frankness, it felt very much like reading the screed of a 1980s British academic, who is quite erudite but also monomaniacal about a particular subject, in this case popular culture of primar......more

Goodreads review by Tucker on February 11, 2022

It! is! about!: What we expect a body part to represent or communicate (obscenity, eros, grossness) contrasted with that body part's material reality (softer, smaller, therefore "disappointing" our expectation for it). and: Whether the body part's meaning and/or materiality is context-dependent. You m......more

Quotes

“A gleeful middle finger to the expectations of trans memoir… complex, multi-layered, enchanting.”—them

"With a singular sense of wryness and ribaldry, Lavery charts the course of her gender transition."—Tomi Obaro, Buzzfeed

“A smart and funny memoir spanning addiction and gender transition, queer theory and standup comedy.”—The Guardian, Most Anticipated Books of 2022

"Lavery's wild, genre-busting tale of gender transition, addiction and multiple varieties of chaos is both riotously intelligent and dazzlingly hilarious."—Evening Standard (London)

“Grace Lavery’s unabashed and tantalizing book queers the memoir genre in multiple senses, taking readers on a wild ride through the author’s multitudinous identities.”—Electric Lit, Most Anticipated Books of 2022

“In this genre-busting work of memoir (or auto-fiction?), Grace Lavery embarks on a myriad of misadventures, including receiving anonymous letters from cultish clowns and starring in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard.”
 —Autostraddle, Winter preview

“Lavery takes a novel approach to the memoir. Melding it with fiction, theory and analysis of popular culture, the result is an untamed beast… weird and wonderful.”—Irish Times

“Rocking a finely-honed, larger-than-life authorial persona…Lavery’s shattered expectations with an inventive and provocative memoir.”
 —The Herald (Scotland)

“Imagine a graduate lit theory seminar interrupted every few minutes by a back-row prankster who has a knack for making the whole room blush. Lavery's ideas float high out of reach at times, but if you grab one, it might just rearrange your thinking around sexuality, freedom, and what it takes to mine joy from this broken world.”—The Week

“A surreal speculative memoir… Lavery aims to rub out the dividing line between the intellectual and the bawdy. Recounting how she solved her “penis problem” and began taking synthetic estrogen, Lavery explores transcendental erotic self‑realization, her history of drug and alcohol use, and the paradigmatic concept of the penis through absurdist tall tales.”—Publisher's Weekly

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List