Arcadia - Bayamack-Tam, Emmanuelle
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Farah moves into Liberty House at the tender age of thirteen, with her family. The commune''s spiritual leader, Arcady, preaches equality, non-violence, anti-speciesism, free love and uninhibited desire for all, regardless of gender, age, looks or ability. In this utopian ''quiet zone,'' far from access to technology, Farah goes through puberty as a transgender transition. Upon discovering they are intersex, Farah begins to question what it means to be a woman or a man, and all the principles those within and outside the confraternity live by and grows empowered to create a better world.

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Farah moves into Liberty House at the tender age of thirteen, with her family. The commune''s spiritual leader, Arcady, preaches equality, non-violence, anti-speciesism, free love and uninhibited desire for all, regardless of gender, age, looks or ability. In this utopian ''quiet zone,'' far from access to technology, Farah goes through puberty as a transgender transition. Upon discovering they are intersex, Farah begins to question what it means to be a woman or a man, and all the principles those within and outside the confraternity live by and grows empowered to create a better world.
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A fantastic journey to a world where sex and gender binary differences and the distinctions between the normal and the pathological dissolve and transmute not without risk. Using a language full of humor and subtlety, Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam manages to capture the contradictions and complexities of the period we live in at the end of a political regime where new configurations of subjectivity, belonging, love and kinship are still taking shape but are not yet fully recognized. Moving and illuminating.
Paul B. Preciado, author of An Apartment on Uranus

So funny, full of joie de vivre, bursting with vitality and life." Lauren Groff, author of Arcadia

"French writer Bayamack-Tam s rich English-language debut chronicles the coming-of-age adventures of a teenage girl who lives in a commune with her family. After moving from Paris, Farah adjusts to new life at Liberty House, a technology-free space where the harmonious 'love conquers all' credo is echoed among thefollowers and promoted by their spiritual guru, Arcady. Farah and her family are de-baptized and renamed upon entering the community, and remain carefully attuned to Arcady s daily exegesis and impassioned sermons. Farah is a bulky, awkward adolescent who soon discovers she is intersex and grapples with conflicting male and female impulses. Meanwhile, she is coddled by an increasingly creepy Arcady, who passionately promises her unconditional acceptance and unbridled sex with him once she s old enough. Eventually, Farah learns to embrace and treasure the 'androgynous creature 'her body has become, particularly after a migrant integrates himself into the community and promotes independence among Arcady s followers. While the supporting characters are a bit too thinly drawn, Bayamack-Tam builds out the family s swift acclimation to Liberty House with clever detail and flashes of humor, as when Farah s nudist grandmother frolics on the commune s grounds and her mother claims to suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. It all adds up to an engrossing and provocative character study."
Publishers Weekly

"Subversive, funny, political, erudite, Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam confirms with Arcadie that she is one of the most astonishing female novelists of our time."
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