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The house of impossible beauties / Joseph Cassara.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF CASS	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .
AF CASS	Adult Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781786073143 (hardback)
ISBN	9781786073150 (paperback)
Name	Cassara, Joseph author.
Title	The house of impossible beauties / Joseph Cassara.
Published	London : Oneworld Publications, 2018.
Published	©2018
Description	400 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary	1980, New York City. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications, Angel must tend to their house alone. She recruits Venus, a whip-fast trans girl who dreams of finding a rich man to take care of her; Juanito, a quiet boy who loves fabrics and design; and Daniel, a butch queen who accidentally saves Venus's life. The Xtravaganzas lean on each other as bulwarks against a world that resists them.
Subjects	Gay youth -- Fiction
	Transgender people -- Fiction
	Nineteen eighties -- Fiction
	Nineteen nineties -- Fiction
	Hispanic Americans -- Fiction
	Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Gay youth -- Fiction . Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction . Hispanic Americans -- Fiction . Nineteen eighties -- Fiction . Nineteen nineties -- Fiction . Transgender people -- Fiction . Authors: Cassara, Joseph .