At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age.

A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood—and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. But when disaster strikes, can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?

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Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer in Toronto. She is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir Metonymy Press), the poetry collection a place called No Homeland (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2018), and the children's picture book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li. Her latest book is the essay collection I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes at the End of the World (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2020). Kai Cheng won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers in 2017.

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“The book is high-energy and full of exciting tension from the outset, and the writing keeps you glued to the page.” — Teen Vogue

“I couldn’t have been more thrilled when they announced that there was finally going to be an audiobook of Kai Cheng Thom’s novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars … Adri Almeida’s narration brilliantly captures the voice of the main character in all of her fabulous glory.” — Kendra Winchester, Book Riot

“There are so many parts of this book I love I can’t even say them all.” — Bitch Media

“Almeida’s narration is fantastic, capturing all of the protagonist’s conflicting emotions and all the nuances of Thom’s poetic prose. The book itself is dreamlike, in the best way possible, and Almeida’s voices brings that dream to life.” — Laura Sackton, Book Riot

“Kai Cheng Thom’s fantastical and carefully constructed writing brings the knife blade and the high heel together in an engaging, fast-paced fictional—or is it?—memoir.” — The Winnipeg Review