A Natural History of Transition: Stories by Callum Angus

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow as tall as buildings, turn into mountains, unravel hometown mysteries, and give birth to cocoons.
 
Portland-based author Callum Angus infuses his work with a mix of alternative history, horror, and a reality heavily dosed with magic. 
 
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'Callum Angus is one of the younger writers I'm most excited by, with a mind full of marvels and an ear to match. Every story surprises; every sentence strives gorgeously toward music. This is writing as transition, as entrancement, as transcendence.' -- Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You and Cleanness
 
'How did we do without A Natural History of Transition for so long? Down with the medicalized so-called histories of our selves! Cal Angus has written our history as something much lusher, more fantastical, and for that reason, more true.' - Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of a Fox