Testimony of a Shifter

Testimony of a Shifter

  • Autor: Pérez, Emma
  • Editor: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558859791
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518507809
  • eISBN Epub: 9781518507786
  • Lloc de publicació:  Houston , United States
  • Any de publicació: 2023
  • Pàgines: 209

Imprisoned by the totalitarian government, Dr. Benito Espinoza practices for his weekly interrogations by recounting his story to his thirteen-year-old daughter. He tells her about turning his back on his ability to shift his gender from male to female—to Alejandra—to become a scholar in the Grand Library. Most scholars are Residents who inherited their seats and believe Descendants like Ben don’t have the intellectual ability to be a person of letters. Ben conforms to the laws against transmuting, so he manages to secure a place in the library. His life’s purpose is to prove Descendants are as capable as Residents. But an encounter with a clever, beautiful Descendant leads to his unwitting participation in the rebellion against the Impresario and his White Guards. Soon the shifter is involved with the Rebels, trying to save a younger generation of Descendants and shifters from the horrific experiments and violence perpetrated against them. In a non-linear narrative in which “time is false,” author and scholar Emma Pérez offers a fascinating speculative novel about alternate histories, while pondering race, discrimination and transgender people.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part 1
    • February 9, 2058
    • August 24, 2044
    • Residents
    • Rebel Café
    • Fog
    • PHD, metaphysical decoding And reconstruction
  • Part 2
    • El mundo zurdo
    • Marco
    • The tree house
    • At the movies
    • América
    • Sanctuary
    • Fights
    • Wounds
    • The return
    • The palace wall
    • Explosives
    • Margie
  • Part 3
    • Lucy
    • América
    • Experiments
    • Forgiveness
    • Woke wars (w5)
    • Alejandra
    • Counselors and interrogations
    • Tamaya
    • Saguaros
    • Aurelio (Rusty)
    • Celestial drive
    • Caves, Mirrors, Timelines
    • Games
    • Militants
    • Mad
    • Transcenders
    • Aurelio (rusty)
  • Part 4
    • Rebellion
    • Merry-Go-Round
    • The archives
    • Cold noodles
    • Ashes
    • Fidel
  • Part 5
    • Portals and spirits
    • It’s time
    • July 29, 2069

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