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Tied together by the strings of a corset, Unsex Me Here is a dazzling showcase of other worlds near and distant, and the high femme ramblers who've found and lost their way through them.From a shapeshifting garden somewhere in Michigan to a West Texas town with a supernatural past, from a stalactite cavern in the birthplace of Aphrodite to a secret waterfall in Texarkana: from nowhere to anywhere, Aurora Mattia chases glimpses of paradise. Her gemstone prose shatters into starbursts of heartbreak and rapture, gossip and holy babble, bringing together a cast of spiders, sibyls, angels, mermaids, girlfriends, and goddesses in vain pursuit of their unnameable selves. Their perils are as dense with symbolism as they are refined by desire-if beauty is the labyrinth, it is also the light.

""These are stories about attempting to outrun time; about trying to remember transfemme pasts; about magic touching everything except the possibility of lasting love." From the beaches of Cyprus to forbidden gardens of discovery to a small town in West Texas, Aurora Mattia weaves dreams of paradises shot through with rot. Her ecstatic, sensuous prose crystallizes into moments of longing and loss, magic and multiplicity-bringing together a cast of spiders, sibyls, angels, and goddesses in vain pursuit of their unnameable selves. Whether traveling ancient shores or struggling to leave her home, each protagonist within this collection is confronted by perils as dense with symbolism as they are laden with joy and despair. Compiled from almost a decade's worth of writing (and rewriting), Unsex Me Here is a dazzling showcase of other worlds near and distant, and the transfemmes who've found-and lost-their way through them"--

A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman’s interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors, brutal breakups, and passionate romance.The Fifth Wound is a phantasmagorical roman à clef about passion as a way of life. In one dimension, this is a love story—Aurora & Ezekiel—a separation and a reunion. In another, we witness a tale of multiple traumatic encounters with transphobic violence. And on yet another plane, a story of ecstatic visionary experience swirls, shatters, and sparkles. Featuring time travel, medieval nuns, knifings, and t4t romance, The Fifth Wound indulges the blur between fantasy and reality. Its winding sentences open like portals, inviting the reader into the intimacy of embodiment—both its pain and its pleasures.Named a must read book of 2023 by Nylon, BookRiot, Vulture‎, and The Millions!