What the title says. I read this book a little over a month ago and I’m still thinking about it. It made me realize how little representation there is for trans black people in media and literature. Please, if you have any fiction recs similar to this with trans black representation for the MC, I would be incredibly grateful. No horror or tragic ending please. I don’t mind an open-ended one, though.
This is the synopsis:
“A young Black gay man reckoning with the death of his father must confront his painful past-and his deepest desires around gender, love, and sex. The venerated Reverend Doctor John Freeman did not raise his son, Davis, to be touched by any man, let alone a white man. He did not raise his son to whisper that man's name with tenderness. But on the eve of his wedding, all Davis can think about is how beautiful he wants to look when he meets his beloved Everett at the altar. Never mind that his mother, who died decades before, and his father, whose anger drove Davis to flee their home in Ohio for a freer life in New York City, won't be there to walk him down the aisle. All Davis needs to be happy in this life is Everett, his new family, and his burgeoning career as an award-winning violist. When Davis learns during the wedding reception that his father has died in a terrible car accident, years of childhood trauma and unspoken emotion resurface. Davis must revisit everything that went wrong between them, his fledgling marriage and irresistible self-confidence spiraling into a pit of despair.”
by -roswell