{"product_id":"the-call-out-a-novel-in-rhyme-csaitm276719","title":"The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Call-Out\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA novel written in verse, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Call-Out\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45821195878588,"sku":"CSAITM276719","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/1025\/9388\/files\/276719.jpg?v=1772427273","url":"https:\/\/dreamersbmore.com\/products\/the-call-out-a-novel-in-rhyme-csaitm276719","provider":"Dreamers \u0026 Make-Believers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}