RESHELVE      ME

"Progressing through the collection, the sediment of every trans character builds in richness; layers of queer history pile up, jagged and dense. The accumulated layers reveal an intimate cross section—each story a marvelous sample, filled with the glittering gradation of transition."
     – Madeleine Moss, Chicago Review of Books
 

"In all, these eight tales show a staggeringly virtuosic range. [...] taken collectively they represent a stunning achievement in the sheer fact of their variety. Angus shows mastery of both compressed and expansive forms—we have the exciting opportunity to glimpse here a young writer exploring different modalities of structure and tone (lyrical, experimental, referential, mythic) with almost universally compelling results."
     – Giancarlo Latta, Gertrude Press


"Angus captures a feeling of transness that one too often has to dig for, or else may never see at all. His characters are simply human, flawed and imperfect, but wholly alive in their own way. To be offered the diversity of transgender experiences and bodies, when so often we are forced to take what we are given, is a delightful treat." 
     – Cleo Peterson, The Puritan


"Callum Angus is one of the younger writers I’m most excited by, with a mind full of marvels and an ear to match. Every story surprises; every sentence strives gorgeously toward music. This is writing as transition, as entrancement, as transcendence.”
     – Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You


"How did we do without A Natural History of Transition for so long?  Down with the medicalized so-called histories of our selves! Cal Angus has written our history as something much lusher, more fantastical, and for that reason, more true."
     – Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox