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Somebody to love

by Steve Holden

A transgender mortician in a small Tasmanian town reflects on her childhood training in taxidermy and her transition while preparing bodies for burial. Her meditations on love and loss explore the lengths she will go to secure her own happiness.

Accession 25012 ISBN 9780702238574 Publisher University of Queensland Press
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