{"product_id":"fitzpatrick-cat-the-call-out","title":"Fitzpatrick, Cat: The Call-Out","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeven Stories Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 25, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that is funny, literary, philosophical, witty, sometimes bitchy and sometimes heartbreaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAashvi, Kate, Bette, Keiko, Gaia, and Day are six queer, mostly trans women surviving and thriving in Brooklyn. Visiting all the fixtures of fashionable 21st century queer society--picnics, literary readings, health conferences, drag shows, punk houses, community accountability processes, Grindr hookups-- \u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out\u003c\/i\u003e also engages with pressing questions around economic precarity, sexual consent, racism in queer spaces, and feminist theory, in the service of asking what it takes to build, or destroy, a marginalized community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA novel written in verse, \u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out\u003c\/i\u003e recalls the Russian literary classic Eugene Onegin, but instead of 19th century Russian aristocrats crudely solved their disagreements with pistols, the participants in this rhyming drama have developed a more refined weapon, the online call-out, a cancel-culture staple. In this passionate tangle of modern relationships, where a barbed tweet can be as dangerous as the narrator's bon-mots, Cat Fitzpatrick has fashioned a modern novel of manners that gives readers access to a vibrant cultural underground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45265601363991,"sku":"9781644212332","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/91FwLy0WCNL._SL1500.jpg?v=1783196709","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/fitzpatrick-cat-the-call-out","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}