Lit with Liberate: Little Fish

Lit with Liberate, our monthly LGBT-themed reading group, will be meeting in September to discuss Little Fish by Casey Plett.

In this extraordinary debut novel, Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman who comes across evidence that her late grandfather—a devout Mennonite farmer—might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, having other problems at hand, but as she and her friends struggle to cope with the challenges of their increasingly volatile lives—from alcoholism, to sex work, to suicide—Wendy is drawn to the lost pieces of her grandfather’s life, becoming determined to unravel the mystery of his truth. Alternately warm-hearted and dark-spirited, desperate and mirthful, Little Fish explores the winter of discontent in the life of one transgender woman as her past and future become irrevocably entwined.

This is a free reading group that is 18+ and open to all. If you haven’t read the book but fancy coming along to check out what it’s all about, please do!