Description
A child whom the world struggles to understand finds a protector in a strange, shape-shifting creature: the Godbeast. Fierce, faithful and unwilling to abandon her, it makes its home within the places others have called broken.
In this illustrated memoir, Shimi & Critter weave lived experience with animal fable, myth and spiritual reflection. A childhood marked by hearing loss and the brutality of experimental psychiatry is also illuminated by the tenderness of friars, the companionship of animals and the discovery of art. Through these encounters, a vulnerable child finds ways to endure—and a language for experiences that ordinary words cannot hold.
The journey leads through isolation, gender transition and the long search for belonging to Seattle, where queer community, chosen family and unexpected acts of care offer the possibility of a different life. Along the way, the Godbeast’s fierce protection gives room for Critter, a small wolf whose appetite for affection, mischief and discovery carries childhood forward into a new beginning.
By turns harrowing, irreverent and tender, GODBEAST explores faith, trauma, trans identity and the deep bonds between human and animal life. It asks what becomes possible when a creature who has spent a lifetime surviving finally finds somewhere to belong.
This revised and expanded second edition includes a new foreword, additional material and illustrations by Jo Bancroft and Shimi.
Details
Publisher - Poetica Luporum
Language - English
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Shimi and Critter
Published Date - 2026-11-10
ISBN - 9798998000423
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm
Page Count - 198
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