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alternate history
Author_Isaac Fellman
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coming of age
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fellmann
felman
fictional city
fictional land
found family
gender reassignment
hopeful
human rights
mental health
NYC
painting
persecution
portrait
post-apocalyptic
regiside
rejicide
secrets
unreliable narrator
Product details
- ISBN 9781250329103
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 150 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2025
- Publisher: Castle Point Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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When your parents die, you find out who they really were.
Griffon Keming’s second parents saved him from his abusive family. They taught him how to be trans, paid for his transition, and tried to love him as best they could. But Griffon’s new parents had troubles of their own – both were deeply scarred by the lives they lived before Griffon, the struggles they faced to become themselves, and the failed revolution that drove them from their homeland. When they died, they left an unfillable hole in his heart.
Griffon’s best clue to his parents’ lives is in his father’s journal, written from a jail cell while he awaited execution. Stained with blood, grief, and tears, these pages struggle to contain the love story of two artists on fire. With the journal in hand, Griffon hopes to pin down his relationship to these wonderful and strange people for whom time always seemed to be running out.
In Notes from a Regicide, a trans family saga set in a far-off, familiar future, Isaac Fellman goes beyond the concept of found family to examine how deeply we can be healed and hurt by those we choose to love.
Isaac Fellman (he/him) is the author of Dead Collections as well as The Breath of the Sun (published under his previous name), which won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for queer science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He is an archivist at the GLBT Historical Society.
