I tried to read that and couldn't get more than a couple of chapters into it. I really dislike the assumption that suburban, 30-something=parent-- I mean, that book is kind of urban "hen lit", and it follows the usual chick lit (20something, single, wanting to marry)-> hen lit (30s, with kids) pattern. Apparently childfree, female 30 and 40 year old protagonists don't exist. I know that's the publishing industry's fault and not this specific book's fault, but it still puts me off reading books with suburban mothers.
As for Ann Aguirre's book, I haven't read her SF but I have read her urban fantasy ("Blue Diablo"), and it had a part in it that was really, really transphobic. Apparently "tranny alley" scared her character more than all the necromancers and black magic in the book.
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Date: 2009-10-14 12:21 am (UTC)As for Ann Aguirre's book, I haven't read her SF but I have read her urban fantasy ("Blue Diablo"), and it had a part in it that was really, really transphobic. Apparently "tranny alley" scared her character more than all the necromancers and black magic in the book.