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Jordy Rosenberg: Confessions of the Fox (2018, One World)

Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the life of …

"If I am to die today, please God let it be with the memory of the taste of her on my tongue"

Holy fuck. So on the face of it this is a re-imagining of the 18th century outlaw Jack Sheppard via a faux uncovered memoir revealing Jack to be a trans man. The text itself is "discovered" and edited by the author with numerous, very comedic footnotes. What starts out as translating a very long list of period slang for pussy begins to bleed into the narrative with metatextual discussions on gender, publishing, policing and capitalism. If you ever wanted a raunchy queer period drama with commentary that is one part stand-up, one part revolutionary treaties, then this is for you.