Fiction

“I encountered Tremain’s novel through a series of favourable mentions in the Daily Telegraph, and I can well see how it came to win prizes, and why the paper’s diarist commended it so highly.
    A tenderly written, meticulously-researched account of the life and transition of a trans man, Sacred Country is not just fine literature … I think it’s also one of the best accounts of transition written anywhere, and when I want to give a book to a friend who wonders what being trans is all about, this is the one which I invariably choose.
    Highly recommended.” — CMcN

“Be careful. If you don’t like powerful writing, don’t read this book.  If you don’t like beautiful and moving prose, read something else … and above all, if you don’t want to rethink any of your worldview, stay well clear of Stone Butch Blues.
    This account of the journey of someone who doesn’t fit the rigid categories of gender is a modern classic, a work which has moved people from well beyond the trans community. It’s a painful account of the struggle of someone who doesn’t fit in the lesbian community, but also falls outside the narrow definitions of transsexual … and whose efforts to find a path through life demonstrate all too starkly how easy it is for those of us escaping the exclusions which we have suffered, to build in our turn new orthodoxies which marginalise others.
    In a few short paragraphs, I find it hard to convey just how well Feinberg has demonstrated the wisdom of the adage that great literature can convey great truths much better than dry analysis or polemic … but even if it sounds clichéed, I can say unhesitatingly that this book changed my life and my understanding of what it means to be trans.” — CMcN