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Pass with Care
By Cooper Lee Bombardier
On sale June 9, 2020
ISBN 9781948340489 (Hardcover)
ISBN 9781948340212 (Softcover)
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Cooper Lee Bombardier weaves together a lyrical blend of personal essays, poetry, and interview transcripts, set against the backdrops of working-class New England, the queer punk scene of early '90s San Francisco, and the gritty deserts of New Mexico. By documenting trans history through his life in the arts, trans elder Bombardier lends much-needed insight into the lives, coming out, and transitions of older transgender people.
Pass with Care: Memoirs offers a bridge between queer and trans generations, revealing a unique reckoning with what it means to become a man today.
“Through lyrically constructed prose, Bombardier introduces us to the fraught and beaming world of being queer, trans, and of passing in the world as a man...Pass with Care: Memoirs is a necessary and important glimpse into a living trans history as Bombardier explores how much the world has changed and made room for trans people.” —Berkeley Fiction Review
“A gorgeously rendered response to what one might call the “Now what?” question: After an experience as metamorphic and all-consuming as a gender transition, what happens next? Who do we become after that becoming? Where do we locate meaning?” —The Rumpus
2021 Firecracker Award Finalist
Featured In Publishers Weekly's "Still Here, Still Queer: Lbgtq Books 2020"
Featured In Book Riot's "Indie Press Round-up: 10 Great New Releases For Summer"
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About the Author
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Cooper Lee Bombardier is a writer and visual artist from the South Shore of Boston. He has been a construction worker, a cook, a carpenter, a union stagehand, a bouncer, a welder, a shop steward, a dishwasher, a truck driver, and a housepainter, among other things, for a paycheck. His writing has appeared in many publications and anthologies and The Huffington Post named him one of “10 Transgender Artists Who Are Changing The Landscape Of Contemporary Art.” Pass with Care is his first book, as well as a 2021 Firecracker Awards Finalist for Creative Nonfiction.