Bayamack-Tâm’s English-language debut follows an intersex teen coming of age in a libertarian commune, along the way both revealing and subverting contemporary conceptions of normative sexuality, capitalist culture, and environmental degradation.

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Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam has published 12 novels and two plays with P.O.L, including three novels under the pseudonym Rebecca Lighieri. She is a founding member of the interdisciplinary association Autres et Pareils and co-director of Éditions Contre-Pied. Her novel Arcadia won the Prix du Livre Inter and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina, the Prix Médicis, and Prix de Flore.