Little Fish
A Novel

The main way this book is similar to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is that for the first half you're like "yeah this is pretty good but it's not blowing my mind" and then around the halfway point it takes off and becomes incredible. I don't remember if Order of the Phoenix did this too b......more

I had the chance to read this book prior to publication, and I was stunned at the work Casey Plett has produced. It is a truly moving and wonderful novel about family, in many sense of the word. If you don't read it, you'll regret it.......more

2 stars Little Fish may be one of the most dismal, depressing, what the hell is going on books that I have ever read. I wanted (desperately so) to like this book about trans women, written by a trans woman, Casey Plett.  Plett writes quite nice prose -- when she is writing prose, rather than pages and......more

You always had to be on your guard. It didn't matter how often you passed, it could always be taken away. Always. She'd never be little, she'd never be a fish. It could always be taken away. I know a family who recently went on a trip to China, and as they were walking around Tiananmen Square, lo......more

[cw in this review for discussion of transphobia] not sure what to say about this. um, first of all: wow. on the one hand, i want to recommend this to every trans person i know. it's such a fundamentally honest story, nothing hollywoodified, nothing held back. the writing is both bare and evocative--n......more