num_pages: 250
description: In sparse, evocative prose, T Cooper tells the story of four splintered lives: Isak is a "gender freak" to the world at large. Taylor is so simultaneously perfect, yet useless, that she is paralyzed. Her mother Arlene is lonely and pill-popping, while Arlene’s brother Charlie faces the unexpected—even unwanted—prospect of being healthy with HIV. Fractured lives in various forms of exile eventually join to re-forge a definition of family from the ashes.T Cooper received an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. For some time, T doubled as T-Rok, a member of the heart-throbby Backdoor Boys performance troupe. T’s work—both fiction and non-fiction—has appeared in a variety of magazines, journals and anthologies. This is a first novel.
language: English
title: Some of the Parts
titlecomplete: Some of the Parts
genres: Queer, Transgender, LGBT, Fiction, Queer Lit
ratings_count: 198
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Transgender
publisher: Akashic Books