TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hernandez,Catherine
TI  - Crosshairs: a novel 
SN  - 9781982146023
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
KW  - Sexual minorities
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - Government, Resistance to
KW  - Social workers
KW  - Transgender people
KW  - Survival
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Dystopian fiction
KW  - Novels
KW  - LGTBQ+
N2  - "In this captivating dystopian novel, a larger-than-life drag queen and her allies join forces to rise up when a post-Trump regime rounds those deemed "Other" into concentration camps"--; Set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes on the opportunity to round up communities of color, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ into labor camps. In the shadows, a new hero emerges. After he loses his livelihood as a drag queen and the love of his life, Kay joins the resistance alongside Bahadur, a transmasculine refugee, and Firuzeh, a headstrong social worker. Guiding them in the use of weapons and close-quarters combat is Beck, a rogue army officer, who helps them plan an uprising at a major televised international event
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