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Again, Harder
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Expected 12 May 26Cult author Alice Stoehr’s debut short fiction collection about the messy, intersecting lives of a community of Midwestern trans women.
Again, Harder gathers the uncompromising short fiction of Alice Stoehr, which investigates the inner lives, evolving relationships, and often violent marginalization of a community of trans women in a large Midwestern town.
In these stories, a commune of trans separatists seduces a suicidal writer. An obsessive TERF and the trans woman she’s fixated on circle one another with building intensity. Polyamorous triads bloom and wilt, hookup app messages fly, friends sit for post-surgical care, and women fall to the toxic allure of Dorothy Lipko, the worst ex-girlfriend you have ever known.
Among this, there is regret, there is poverty, there is depression and sexual anxiety and despair; there is also fleeting, shared joy. Again, Harder is the sardonic heartbeat of a new generation of American trans women.
Again, Harder gathers the uncompromising short fiction of Alice Stoehr, which investigates the inner lives, evolving relationships, and often violent marginalization of a community of trans women in a large Midwestern town.
In these stories, a commune of trans separatists seduces a suicidal writer. An obsessive TERF and the trans woman she’s fixated on circle one another with building intensity. Polyamorous triads bloom and wilt, hookup app messages fly, friends sit for post-surgical care, and women fall to the toxic allure of Dorothy Lipko, the worst ex-girlfriend you have ever known.
Among this, there is regret, there is poverty, there is depression and sexual anxiety and despair; there is also fleeting, shared joy. Again, Harder is the sardonic heartbeat of a new generation of American trans women.
304 pages, Paperback
Expected publication May 12, 2026
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March 1, 2026
this was such..... an interesting and wild read. i loved the interconnected stories that make up one larger story and the bold, "shoved in your face" writing style that the author has! every time i finished one story and would turn to the next i had no idea what was in store for me and that made it impossible to put this book down! reading about the messy and at times alarming personal lives of multiple trans women proved to be a reminder that you don't know what the HELL is going on behind the scenes in people's lives (i mean. the hookup messages. the poly triad. DOROTHY LIPKO. things get wild.) i loved every bit of this and wish we got a little bit more in terms of knowing how these stories connect with each other but overall i cannot WAIT to see everyone's thoughts on this one!
huge thank you to feminist press for sending me an ARC!
huge thank you to feminist press for sending me an ARC!
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
You know it feels when you get the run down of drama and gossip about a group of people you don't know? And then after the fact it feels like you know them and you're invested in their world and gossip like it's a reality tv show except it's just people living their life and you were being told about them? That's the feeling this book gave me. I got all the deets. I got all the gossip. And I loved it.
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October 10, 2025Review TK in the form of a blurb ^_-
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