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\"\"Morgan Thomas’s profound debut, Manywhere<\/em>, is partly dedicated to “anyone who’s gone looking for themself in the archives.” In nine remarkable stories, Thomas adamantly and sublimely commits four centuries of the genderqueer\/trans existence to the page. In “The Daring Life of Philippa Cook the Rogue,” a contemporary Jamestown reenactor plans to purchase a colonial intersex servant’s letters. Thomas brilliantly shuttles readers between the 17th and 21st centuries, inspired by real-life Thomas\/ine Hall’s 1629 court transcripts that evoke the former century and 2018 e-mails that present the latter. In “Taylor Johnson’s Lightning Man,” Thomas integrates 1908 newspaper coverage of Frank Woodhull, an immigrant born Mary Johnson who arrives at Ellis Island, with a teen’s examination of trans identity. The name in this story’s title (perhaps coincidentally) also belongs to award-winning trans poet Taylor Johnson. Thomas once again overlaps past and present in “The Expectation of Cooper Hill,” conflating late-1920s Alabama midwifery with a woman’s attempt to understand the disappearance of her great-great-grandmother.<\/p>\n

In addition to their talents with historical adaptation, Thomas excels in displays of surprising (re)invention. In “That Drowning Place,” one sibling assumes the identity of another after a fatal accident. In “Transit,” an expelled patient from an eating disorder facility convinces a stranger that they are a vampire. In “Bump,” a trans woman, whose married lover has abruptly entered fatherhood, dons a pregnancy prosthesis after a colleague’s incorrect assumption. In the poignant “Manywhere,” the collection’s most bittersweet story, the protagonist lures a stranger home for their aging father, who longs for his imagined daughter.<\/p>\n

Though this is Thomas’s debut collection, eight of these nine stories were previously published in multiple outlets. Theirs is an unpredictable perspective, ready to illuminate and beguile readers.<\/p>\n

Discover<\/strong>: Morgan Thomas’s absorbing collection of nine stories promises a surprising, often ingenious, exploration of the genderqueer\/trans experience in recent centuries.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Fiction,” Shelf Awareness<\/em>, February 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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