Any Other City' by Hazel Jane Plante reimagines the memoir as a construction project. Catch the book release this Friday. | ✍️ Annie Howard
is a peculiar model for a “memoir,” seeing as it tells the story of a fictional rockstar whose life was conjured in Plante’s imagination. St.
Of course, as the book’s title suggests, the city itself plays a critical role in the protagonist’s journey. Just as we layer pieces of ourselves in our own life’s narratives, so too do cities offer clues about different histories that pile on top of one another. In, places don’t hide their former selves, offering a model for our own reimagination: as St.
In the book, St. Cyr’s early, fumbling attempts at connecting with other trans women, and the painful struggle to see herself through a haze of disassociation, romantic uncertainty, and internalized transphobia, play out in the nameless city. Many of those same feelings arise in new ways as she returns to the city decades later, while fresh wounds force her to tend patiently to the same body, at once so close and far away from her past.
“Our bodies hold all of these memories, and some of them are really hard, and some of them are really beautiful,” Plante says. “It’s wild too, because we’re not seeing the things that are bursting and popping within other people. We’re just like, ‘Oh, it’s a person walking down the street wearing a suit, and there’s like a lady wearing a lovely dress,’ but so much more is bubbling inside of all of us all the time, but we generally don’t acknowledge it.
But even as the body is a profound site of trauma and adversity, the storehouse for everything that pains us and reminds us of things we’d rather leave behind, it’s also where pleasure begins.’s second half is full of startling moments of physical release and cathartic music, as St. Cyr works through devastating grief in song and in sex.
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