Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Cecilia Gentili reinvents the transgender memoir in this hilarious and heartbreaking debut.

In these hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Cecilia Gentili reinvents the trans memoir, putting the confession squarely between the writer and her enemies, paramours and friends. Is she here for revenge, or forgiveness? Both! And more! A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, FALTAS is a beautiful, messy meditation on what it takes to heal, and even grow.

“A painstaking, personal and power-filled manifesto for survivors and trans women and anyone dreaming and yearning on the margins. FALTAS is as intentional, resilient, original and acerbic as its activist author.”
—Janet Mock, author of Redefining Realness & Surpassing Certainty

“Cecilia Gentili is a brilliant writer whose FALTAS (which is Spanish for “errors”) are infallible reports from the front lines of trans literature. She has so much courage and grit and is outrageously daring. The villains and saints in her childhood and adolescence she evokes with truth and humour. This book is irresistible.”
—Edmund White, author of A Boy’s Own Story and A Previous Life

“Cecilia Gentili is a born storyteller — her voice jumps from every page. Her humour and warmth disarm you before sudden turns into the shocking and accusatory. FALTAS pulsates with the same thrill as listening in secretly to a phone call, opening someone else's mail, reading a strangers' diary. You know it's wrong but you would do anything to keep going.”
—Morgan M Page, writer, Framing Agnes

“These are bewitching accounts that do everything all at once: accuse, forgive, mock, heal, teach, seduce; stories that transcend classification and reality even as they tell hard truths. Cecilia Gentili is a singular voice that you can’t miss.”
—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby View Less