Cut Away

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Cut Away is a novel that expertly entwines the lives of three characters struggling to understand the meaning of identity and its seeming mutability. Orbiting around the mystery of a missing teenager, a trio of narrators each tells her story in turn. Alexandra is a transgendered woman who has refused surgery and abandoned Los Angeles for a t

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A story whose characters are intriguing, complicated, and all searching for something or someone. You can't help caring for them in the best possible way--without judgment; and you can't help reading on late into the night to unravel the intriguing connections between them.

--Judith Barrington

Erotic, dark and intense . . . An original, thrilling debut.

--Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh

Like a surgeon's knife, Kirkwood's writing is precise, direct and unsentimental. Indeed, the novel cuts deeply.

--Helena Maria Viramontes, author of Their Dogs Came With Them

The vivid reality of the people and places keep us in their disturbing and beautiful world.

--Rachel Pollack, author of The Tarot of Perfection A Book Of Tales