{"product_id":"9781644215487","title":"The Dinner Party","description":"\u003cb\u003eCat Fitzpatrick delights in this post-pandemic follow-up to her debut verse novel of present-day manners, \u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003ea trans community celebration of mores, gender theory, and rhyme.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Party \u003c\/i\u003ereturns to the chaotic and adorable world of trans femme. The title piece begins… “The ‘Rona being now at last abated,” and continues with cameo portraits of the seven guests she plans to invite, including:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTogether, as we had in days gone by.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI asked Rakshasi, clad in black, so thin,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo eager for some trouble to get in,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf any kind, and Sophie, blunt and dry,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho often ended up the night so pissed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe’d trip and fall when climbing up the stairs,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd learned Bridget, sweet, beset by cares,            \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho always talks about her therapist ––\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy besties. Plus I asked along a pair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf mascs: Adonis, such a charming youth,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore interested in beauty than in truth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho drives a motorbike and braids his hair,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd Dominic, less young, but full of poise,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA trickster with a most provoking grin,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore pleased with contradiction than with sin,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd even more with argument than boys,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoining  “The Dinner Party” are several other themed pieces, including “A Stay in the Country,” a short arcadian pageant, “Baby Book,” about the trials and tribulations of making babies as queer and transsexual couples, “Letter to Crabstick,” an epistolatory friendship, and “Uxorious Sonnets,” a collection of eight love poems, among them Sonnet 6 in which she writes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eit’s almost terrifying when we fuck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ehow there I am, how in that jostle and shove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eof flesh, my thoughts, that mostly run amuck,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003econtract to simply shouting \u003c\/i\u003eLove You Love.","brand":"Cat Fitzpatrick","offers":[{"title":"Seven Stories Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2026-05-26","offer_id":47340772720895,"sku":"9781644215487","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/9781644215487.jpg?v=1778611282","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781644215487","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}