Book
1 of 1 Copy Available
- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
Endpapers : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION KELL (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.
Physical Description
328 pages : 22 cm
Summary
"In 2003 New York, a genderqueer book conservator who feels trapped by her gender presentation, ill-fitting relationship, and artistic block discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author"--
2003. Artist and bookbinder Dawn Levit works in conservation at the Met. Nothing is inspiring her art; her gender identity clashes with the rest of her life; her relationship is falling apart. At work Dawn has to present as female, even on the days when that is not true. One day she find the torn-off cover of a '50s lesbian pulp novel hidden behind the endpaper of an old book: Turn Her About. On the front is a campy illustration of a woman looking into a handheld mirror and seeing a man's face. And on the back is a love letter. She becomes obsessed with tracking down the note's author. -- adapted from jacket