Title: First spring grass fire /
Authors: Spoon, Rae; Lam, Brian
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Transgender people Fiction.
Abstract: "This first book by Rae Spoon [who uses "they" as a pronoun], a transgender indie singer-songwriter, is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in Alberta. The narrator attends church events and Billy Graham rallies faithfully with their family before discovering the music that becomes their salvation and means of escape. As their father's schizophrenia causes their parents' marriage to unravel, the narrator finds solace and safety in the company of their siblings, in their nascent feelings for a girl at school, and in their growing awareness that they are not the person their parents think they are. With a heart as big as the prairie sky, this is a quietly devastating, heart-wrenching coming-of-age book about escaping dogma, surviving abuse, finding love, and risking everything for acceptance."--Cover.
Contents: Billy Graham -- Rushed salvation -- 1988 -- Voyageur girls -- Sasquatch in my shower -- Nerd pride -- I will be a wall -- Cowboy -- Knives and baseball bats -- Bible camp -- Hide and seek -- Healing meeting -- Respect the wheel -- Outsiders -- Drunk in the spirit -- Becoming nothing -- Music saves -- Change your name -- Second coming -- With a little help from grunge -- Sprint -- Art hanger -- Escape hatch -- Ice blue light.