{"product_id":"terry-dactyl","title":"Terry Dactyl","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTerry Dactyl\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMattilda Bernstein Sycamore\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781566897419\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCoffee House Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e272\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom iconic author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore comes a breathless search for intimacy and connection, ranging from club culture to the art world, from the AIDS crisis to COVID-19.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTerry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of dancing queens and late-night house parties just as the AIDS crisis ravages their world. After moving to New York City, Terry finds a new family among gender-bending club kids bonded by pageantry and drugs, fiercely loyal and unapologetic. She lands a job at a Soho gallery, where, after partying all night, she spends her days bringing club culture to the elite art world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwenty years later, in a panic during the COVID-19 lockdown, Terry returns to a Seattle stifled by gentrification and pandemic isolation until resistance erupts following the murder of George Floyd, and her search for community ignites once again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn propulsive, intoxicating prose, \u003ci\u003eTerry Dactyl\u003c\/i\u003e traces an extraordinary journey from adolescence to adulthood, delivering a vital portrait of queer identity in all its peril and possibility.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Terry Dactyl | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | Paperback | 9781566897419 | New | Fiction 1712792","offer_id":50838061580546,"sku":"1712792","price":32.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91ialZHX7FL.jpg?v=1792663805","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/terry-dactyl","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}