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Zoe Whittall
Goodreads Author
Born
in South Durham, Quebec, Canada
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December 2007
Apology
Hello readers,
I don't always like to come to Goodreads because I want to honour its place as a space for readers to talk with each other - and I'm a bit sensitive about reviews - but I wanted to use this space to apologize for using the word retarded in my first novel, Bottle Rocket Hearts. Since I wrote that book, I've stopped using that word casually, as was common (but still inexcusable) in the Read more of this blog post »
I don't always like to come to Goodreads because I want to honour its place as a space for readers to talk with each other - and I'm a bit sensitive about reviews - but I wanted to use this space to apologize for using the word retarded in my first novel, Bottle Rocket Hearts. Since I wrote that book, I've stopped using that word casually, as was common (but still inexcusable) in the Read more of this blog post »
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The Best Kind of People
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2016
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23 editions
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The Spectacular
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2021
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16 editions
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Holding Still for as Long as Possible
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2009
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16 editions
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The Fake
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2023
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7 editions
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Bottle Rocket Hearts
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2007
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5 editions
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The Middle Ground
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2010
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7 editions
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The Emily Valentine Poems
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2006
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5 editions
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The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life
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2001
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Precordial Thump
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2008
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Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws: Short Fiction
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2003
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Zoe’s Recent Updates
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Zoe
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The Spectacular:
Two of the main characters, Missy and Carola, are bisexual, one of whom identifies strongly as a queer femme in her 30s, and ends up dating a non-binary butch at the book's conclusion. MIssy's best friend is a queer femme with a butch partner. In tha
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"I don't understand all the confusion around the protagonist calling her father "Baby"—it's explained in the first forty pages!"
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Please see author apology note in my profile about ableist language, if you're interested. I agree it was inexcusable. Thanks for reading.
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“When I tell her I feel like the other woman, she laughs, that's just learned sexist bullshit. We are all in charge of our own bodies and what we decide to do with them. We are all our own.
I believed it when she said it, like she'd opened up a new valve that had been stuck. I felt unconfined and open-minded and totally confused. Intellectually, non-monogamy made complete sense; emotionally, it felt like sandpaper across my eyelids.”
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I believed it when she said it, like she'd opened up a new valve that had been stuck. I felt unconfined and open-minded and totally confused. Intellectually, non-monogamy made complete sense; emotionally, it felt like sandpaper across my eyelids.”
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“That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.”
― Holding Still for as Long as Possible
― Holding Still for as Long as Possible
“I am having a quarter-life crisis," I announced to my mother.
"My generation never had those, we just had babies and thought about killing them from time to time.”
― Holding Still for as Long as Possible
"My generation never had those, we just had babies and thought about killing them from time to time.”
― Holding Still for as Long as Possible
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