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Little Fish
- A Novel
- Narrated by: A. Almeida
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Winner, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction
Finalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a 30-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) - a devout Mennonite farmer - might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy's life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa's truth. Can Wendy unravel the mystery of her grandfather's world and reckon with the culture that both shaped and rejected her? She's determined to try.
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.
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What the critics say
"Little Fish is ultimately not about the past but about the present - and looking forward to trans futures.... A friend recently told me that one of the things she appreciates about Plett's work is how she so clearly writes for trans women. But the novel also deserves a wide audience. Every reader can get this part: being a trans woman is exhausting." (The Globe and Mail)
"It’s a confident, moving work that reports unflinchingly on the lives of trans women in Winnipeg. But more than that, it’s also an honest and heartbreaking, and sometimes funny, look at a group of friends trying to come to terms with themselves and their world.... Little Fish is a powerful and important debut. Plett has masterfully painted her characters as both deeply complex and relatable." (National Post)
"Rather than downplaying transness in some effort to normalize or simplify it, Plett centres it.... While she acknowledges the absolute uniqueness of individual experience, she also honours a loosely held trans culture, a shared palette of pain and loss, and a collective heroism (though the author herself might be reticent to call it that). For those of us outside this experience, we can only count ourselves lucky to have Plett's novel, a book that invites us to witness something so important, so complex, and so tender." (Quill & Quire starred review)
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- Britttay Unger
- 2023-09-20
Amazing story
Loved the story, it was raw and sweet and tangible. Funny to hear the narrator mispronounce all the Winnipeg names.
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- Karis F.
- 2022-08-12
uniquely relateable
as a queer Mennonite from Winnipeg, I found Wendy's story to be relateable in a lot of ways, and it was fun to hear a story from this perspective. So much about our grandparents era is a mystery us.
my only complaint about the book is that the reader mis-pronounced 99% of the street names. I feel like she could have easily done some research on pronunciation, since they are real streets in a real city. drove me crazy!
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- Dr Mrs
- 2023-03-11
Reader Does a Disservice to this Book
I have listened to many Audible recordings and the quality has typically been excellent. Which makes this one all the more disappointing. Never have I encountered one so terrible and painful to endure. The reading is so slow and plodding, where the wrong words are emphasized and the so syntax of the prose is drained of meaning and butchered. And the dialogue in particular is made to sound totally unnatural. Same goes for the swearing. It is done so poorly that you just cannot believe anyone would speak like that and unfortunately it makes it sound like the writing itself is bad. There is no sense that the reader understood what they were reading. It was painful, annoying, and frustrating to listen to the full 8 hours. And then, to top it off, all the mispronunciation of street names and other Winnipeg locales were both maddening and risible. It's embarrassing and insulting to the author (and for all those readers who know better to have to listen to these inane mistakes). And I think it's also a real disservice to the novel and the author to have a cis woman reading this book. And while it is told in third-person, it would have been more respectful and true to the text to have a trans woman reading. It just further made the dialogue sound so stilted and unnatural. This reader was totally incapable of conveying any kind of realism through the way these characters speak and what they actually have to say. I really wanted to like this book, but it was impossible to get past this tortuous reading.
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