Pluralities, Avi Silver
Pluralities, Avi Silver
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Pluralities

Author: Avi Silver

Narrator: Avi Silver

Unabridged: 2 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2024


Synopsis

“Wait—rewind. I was still a girl back then, before the universes converged.”Guided by premonitions and a fateful car ride, a burned-out retail worker stumbles into the grand exit from womanhood. Meanwhile, in a galaxy not so far away, an alien prince goes rogue with his sentient spaceship, seeking purpose in the great glimmering void. As the two of them come together in a fusion of body and mind, they must reckon with their assigned identities.Tender, witty, and daring, Pluralities is a slipstream-meets-space-adventure story honoring the long and turbulent journey into gender euphoria.“A tender exploration of gender and body that revels in its own strangeness. Avi Silver never shies away from the awkward, horny, or complicated aspects of nonbinary identity. This is the 401-level nonbinary speculative fiction I’ve been waiting for.” — Nino Cipri, author of Finna“A gleaming, quicksilver flash of a book. Silver’s writing is funny and tender, and that self-aware humor manages to keep the book’s earnestness from turning twee, while the prose is often shockingly beautiful.” — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times Book Review and co-author, with Max Gladstone, of This is How You Lose the Time War

Reviews

Goodreads review by Isabel on June 19, 2024

"Self discovery is a lonely experience by definition, but I don't think it has to be done alone.” Pluralities is a dual narrative of speculative fiction following a burned-out retail worker and an alien prince as they navigate their respective journeys of identity and purpose. The story is relati......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on October 16, 2024

This was such a pleasant surprise! Pluralities is an intriguing and ambitious work of experimental sci-fi that left me captivated, though a tad disoriented. I was initially confused by the dual settings, but by the end, I found myself profoundly moved by the protagonist's journey of self-discovery.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah ♡ on November 13, 2024

Pluralities is truly a masterpiece, it is so well-written. This is a story of self discovery, identity, connection, love, and what it means to be alive as a human being. And all the complexities that makes us who we are. The narrative is complex and interesting; as a stream of consciousness. Half the......more

Goodreads review by Minerva on July 08, 2023

Wow. This book! In my experience, it can be very difficult to put the experience of being trans, or nonbinary, or genderfluid, into words. But Pluralities does a magically good job of it, with an honesty and openness and beauty I admire greatly. From the very first pages, the writing awed me. Avi Si......more

Goodreads review by Queralt✨ on June 13, 2024

Pluralities is a novella with two POVs: a shopping mall employee questioning their gender identity and Cornelius, an alien prince who has escaped his planet with his sentient spaceship. I picked this up because the cover is gorgeous and I was intrigued about how the two storylines would collide. At......more