Little Fish

The Grey Area Review:

A very unique book, the protagonist and her friends feel very real and fleshed out. I was really invested in the story and Wendy's discovery about her Oma. Wendy's relationships with her family is complicated but this felt authentic.

It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) -- a devout Mennonite farmer -- might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy's life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa's truth. Can Wendy unravel the mystery of her grandfather's world and reckon with the culture that both shaped and rejected her? She's determined to try.

Alternately warm-hearted and dark-spirited, desperate and mirthful, Little Fishexplores the winter of discontent in the life of one transgender woman as her past and future become irrevocably entwined.