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When your parents die, you find out who they really were.

Griffon Keming's second parents saved him from his abusive family. They taught him how to be trans, paid for his transition, and tried to love him as best they could. But Griffon's new parents had troubles of their own…

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This could easily be, I don't know, heartwarming glurge about the importance of found family. Instead, it's a haunting and elegant story about art, revolution, and the damage it leaves behind. Griffon, a teenage trans boy living in a post-apocalyptic, flooded New York, is adopted by an older t4t couple, Etoine and Zaffre, who are artists and refugees from a city called Stephensport, which is frozen in time. In their youth, they were part of a revolutionary movement that left them with both physical and mental scars, and it's only after their deaths that Griffon reads through Etoine's journal and…

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