Any Other City

Any Other City

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Cassandra Schiemann
, Natasa Ilic
, Jude Castillo
, Chantal Comeau
, Marilyn Stanley
, Barry Kazimer
, Sarah Schwartz
, Linda Leitch
, Mary Therrien
, Shannon Leclerc
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Karen Segal
, Noelle Walsh
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Laurie Burns
, Alice Meems
, Deb Philippon
, Jayden MacNamara
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Sandra Furlotte
, Andrea Gillespie
, Kailey Gallant
, Melissa Poremba
, Russell Reitsema
, zelda dwyer
, Andrea Pole
, Lisa Mallia
, Jayne Barnard
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Elmira Olson
, Michelle Brown-Matthews
, finn mulryan
, Luna Anderson Gillis
, Joshua Lewis
, Janet Meisner
, Dani Kat
, Janice Cournoyer
, Carl Scott
, Elizabeth Ivanovich
, Cindy Bodini
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, catherine dorton
, Lauren Carter
, Karen Nordrum
, Rachel Edmonds
, Lauren Seal
, C. Ray
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Jessica Gilbert
, Randi Ann Doll
, Caleb Nault
, Heather Belliveau
, Shayla Bradley
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Christopher Evans
, Ken Gilmour
, Kim Cappellina
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Alex Henderson
, Benita Hartwell
, Paula Ritchie
, Nancy Daoust
, P. Thompson
, Susan Jang
, laura martina
, Patricia Johnson
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Christa Seeley
, Beth Dekoker
, Reilly Robson
, Elisha Lazarski
, Thelma Ball
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Janet Hosokawa
, Beth Follett
, Blake Patterson
, Agnes Marshall
, Shawna Moodie

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editor@49thShelf.com

17/04/2023

07/05/2023

Yes

Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Shayla Bradley
, Marla Schecter Howard

Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock band Static Saints. Side A is a snapshot of her life from 1993, when Tracy arrives in a labyrinthine city as a fledgling artist and unexpectedly falls in with a clutch of trans women, including the iconoclastic visual artist Sadie Tang.

Side B finds Tracy in 2019, now a semi-famous musician, in the same strange city, healing from a traumatic event through songwriting, queer kinship, and sexual pleasure. While writing her memoir, Tracy perceives how the past reverberates into the present, how a body is a time machine, how there’s power in refusing to dust the past with powdered sugar, and how seedlings begin to slowly grow in empty spaces after things have been broken open.

Motifs recur like musical phrases, and traces of what used to be there peek through, like a palimpsest. Any Other City is a novel about friendship and other forms of love, travelling in a body across decades, and transmuting trauma through art making and queer sex - a love letter to trans femmes and to art itself.