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It’s the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel
(short for Melanie) encounters Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman
whose shameless swagger catalyzes Mel’s dawning trans
self-awareness. But it also sparks the fury of townie Swaffham and
throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades
later, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for
(ironically) defying speech codes around trans identity. Back in
Swaffham, he must face his own role in the disasters of the past.
With the charged teenage emotion of Claire Messud’s The Burning
Girl and the propulsive social interrogation of Rebecca Makkai’s
I Have Some Questions for You, Hansbury reckons with gender and
class as he delivers a timely and captivating narrative of
self-realization amid the everyday violence of small-town
intolerance. As the story builds to its explosive conclusion, Some
Strange Music Draws Me In illuminates the unexpected ways that
queerness can provide a ticket to liberation.
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