A Shot Across the Bow of Literary Fiction: A Review of Casey Plett's "A Safe Girl to Love" – PRISM international prismmagazine.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from prismmagazine.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Madeleine Thien and Avi Cummings
December 17, 2020
Sacrifice, belonging, and the deferrals inherent to the experience of becoming are among the ideas at the heart of
Little Fish, Casey Plett’s irreverent and heartfelt first novel. It is the story of Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old Mennonite-raised trans woman in Winnipeg, Canada, who finds herself at a dead-end, uncertain about the possibility of a future. Money is tight, work is hard, housing is uncertain, harassment is routine, friends are struggling, each day is more or less the same, it seems, and the question at the front of her mind is, Can I continue?