Book description
This book will make you trans.
It is an atheist Torah interpretation with a new spin on the deaths of Aaron's sons Nadav and Avihu.
It is a memoir of suicidal hallucination and psychiatric medications.
It is a poem. About butterflies.
Everyone who reads it becomes trans.
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1 author picked Bad Fire as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Lieberman continues his blithe defiance of norms, categories, genres, and all other stylistic straitjackets in this satisfyingly complex memoir. I’ve come to know and love this author’s talent for weaving, with wisdom and wryness and the incisive rigour of a philosophically trained mind, a dizzying welter of topics and themes into an everything’s-connected-to-everything narrative—one which is about being trans while mostly being about everything else. The book promisees that every person who reads it becomes trans, and that trans is “a flexible beginning” for which “you can pick your own secret suffix”. Once you’ve read it, I suspect you, like…
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