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Notes from a Regicide

Isaac Fellman

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Premise labels used: found family, trans self-discovery, family memoir, parent-child bond, revolution aftermath, artistic lives, queer family saga, coming of age, biographical reconstruction

Themes labels used: trans identity, transition, gender expression, family legacy, grief, love and loss, memory, history and historiography, art and creativity, revolution, political upheaval, immigration, trauma, healing, addiction, mental health, oppression, self-discovery, parenthood, inheritance, the personal and political, truth and narrative

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The Sunlight Pilgrims

Jenni Fagan · 2016

In a near-future Scotland freezing into a new ice age, three outsiders build fragile bonds as the world turns colder.

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Premise labels: climate catastrophe · new ice age · grief aftermath · found family · small community · trans identity · survival · family drama

Themes labels: climate change · gender identity · grief · loss · survival · hope · resilience · acceptance · belonging · identity · transition · social marginalization · love · family · change

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Time's Mouth

Edan Lepucki · 2023

A memory-traveling woman builds a secluded California commune, and her family must confront its haunted legacy.

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Premise labels: time travel · memory travel · family secrets · cult commune · generational trauma · motherhood · coming of age · family saga

Themes labels: memory · motherhood · parenthood · family secrets · generational trauma · trauma · loss · inheritance · abandonment · forgiveness · healing · the past and present · identity · community · control · selfhood · breaking cycles · mourning · womanhood

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Distance: 0.1798

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Lunar Boy

Jacinta Wibowo, Jessica Wibowo · 2024

A trans boy from the moon struggles to fit into a new Earth family and discovers belonging in queer community.

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Premise labels: coming of age · belonging · found family · identity search · new family · language barrier · crush · homecoming choice

Themes labels: belonging · change · identity · acceptance · family · queer community · trans identity · grief · healing · language · culture · heritage · home · self-acceptance · coming out · community care · misunderstanding

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Distance: 0.1799

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M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel

Talia Dutton · 2022

A grieving scientist resurrects her sister’s body, but the girl who returns is someone entirely new.

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Premise labels: resurrection · identity crisis · sibling loss · scientific experiment · body replacement · coming of age · self-discovery · family expectations · grief recovery

Themes labels: identity · grief · loss · self-acceptance · individuality · family · expectations · pressure to conform · letting go · belonging · self-forgiveness · autonomy · queer identity · validation · reinvention · mourning

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Catfish Rolling

Clara Kumagai · 2023

After an earthquake fractures time in Japan, a grieving teen searches the zones for her missing mother and father.

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Premise labels: grief journey · missing parent · earthquake aftermath · time fracture · liminal spaces · family search · identity conflict · coming of age

Themes labels: grief · loss · memory · time · belonging · identity · trauma · acceptance · change · family · mourning · nature · philosophy · science and faith · displacement · loneliness · growth · living in liminal space · clinging to the past

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The Prettiest Star

Jadzia Axelrod · 2022 · Galaxy

An alien princess hiding as a human boy on Earth must choose between safety and living openly when she falls in love.

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Premise labels: secret identity · coming out · trans identity · alien refugee · disguise · first love · self-discovery · hidden princess

Themes labels: gender identity · authenticity · self-acceptance · coming out · dysphoria · belonging · family pressure · safety vs freedom · queer visibility · trans experience · prejudice · fear and courage · love as affirmation · identity and disguise

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Distance: 0.1963

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Future Feeling

Joss Lake · 2021

A jealous trans dog walker’s revenge curse backfires, launching him into a surreal queer quest for a stranger’s rescue.

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Premise labels: curse gone wrong · trans protagonist · social media obsession · queer found family · rescue mission · self-actualization · forced partnership · identity quest · trans community · magical tech · misdirected revenge · mystical organization · emotional wasteland · queer sanctuary

Themes labels: transness · gender identity · self-acceptance · self-actualization · queer community · family · friendship · jealousy · social media · illusion · technology · magic · kinship · mental health · depression · identity · belonging · self-love · white guilt · race · indigeneity · adoption · capitalism · consumerism · wellness culture · masculinity · gender roles · care ethics · community support

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The Book of Flora

Meg Elison · 2019 · The Road to Nowhere

In a brutal post-plague world, Flora travels between fragile communities while battling oppression, identity, and a looming threat.

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Premise labels: post-apocalyptic survival · gender identity · reproductive crisis · quest for home · found family · oppression resistance · human evolution

Themes labels: gender identity · gender roles · sexuality · queer identity · feminism · reproductive rights · bodily autonomy · slavery · survival · freedom · motherhood · belonging · identity · civilization · knowledge preservation · books and storytelling · evolution · social construction · oppression

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Sister Mine

Nalo Hopkinson · 2013

A young woman from a family of gods seeks independence, then must face a missing father and her own buried magic.

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Premise labels: sibling rivalry · missing person · family secret · independent life · discovery of power · coming of age · divine family · conjoined twins

Themes labels: identity · independence · family · sisterhood · love and jealousy · self-acceptance · power and inheritance · mortality · life and death · disability · queerness · race · black identity · social justice · prejudice · secrets · deception · coming of age · responsibility · boundaries

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My Name is Monster

Katie Hale · 2019

A lone survivor crosses a ruined world, then finds a feral girl and must decide what it means to survive and become Mother.

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Premise labels: last survivor · post-collapse survival · lonely journey · feral child · found family · motherhood · identity shift · creation and creation · new worldbuilding · self-sufficiency

Themes labels: survival · motherhood · loneliness · connection · belonging · identity · creation · nature and nurture · power · education · memory · trauma · feminism · fertility · womanhood · human condition · hope · loss · isolation · societal roles · freedom · language · meaning · rebuilding

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A Handful of Time

Kit Pearson · 1987

A shy girl sent to stay with relatives finds a watch that sends her into her mother’s past, revealing family secrets.

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Premise labels: time travel · family secrets · divorce · mother-daughter bond · coming of age · summer visit · extended family · self-discovery · generational insight

Themes labels: family relationships · parental divorce · identity formation · self-acceptance · understanding parents · generational trauma · memory · secrecy · change · growing up · belonging · first impressions · acceptance of imperfection · inner strength · childhood perspective

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Distance: 0.1994

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Apsara Engine

Bishakh Kumar Som · 2020

A graphic short-story collection where queer South Asian lives, myth, and speculative disruptions blur everyday reality into strange futures.

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Premise labels: short story collection · speculative twists · queer experience · trans identity · gender identity · body and self · everyday reality disrupted · mythic reworking · alternate futures · interconnected vignettes

Themes labels: gender · body · identity · transness · queer life · intersectionality · ethnicity · religion · social class · postcoloniality · conformity · femininity · desire · heartbreak · memory · time · future · place · belonging · community · power · microaggressions · representation · existential unease

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