From Doubleday (US), Phoenix (UK),
Knopf (Canada), and Sonatine (France)
On Sale Feb 9, 2027
Pre-order Today:
“Both and Neither is groundbreaking, nothing short of extraordinary: a vital exploration of trans experience across past and present.
Blending rigorous historical research with deeply personal memoir, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich brings to light four trans forebears long obscured by history—and reveals the paths their lives have opened for generations
to come.”
—Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts
“A book we need dearly, now and forever. . . .
[A] reclamation of stories that have been erased,
a document of reckoning and integrity, an account of the ways we find ourselves in history, in lovers, in bodies, and in archives; and a testimony to how important it is to resurrect stories that have been lost—in all their dignity and their complexity. …The world is bigger and truer for it.”
—Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams
“A thrilling masterwork that braids stories of transmasculine individuals with Marzano-Lesnevich’s own complicated and fascinating journey through gender. …BOTH AND NEITHER feels like a book we couldn’t have had before, and yet long needed. …They are the only person who could’ve written it.”
—Lydi Conklin, author of Songs of No Provenance
“Inspiring and harrowing, Both and Neither shows the brilliant Alex Marzano-Lesnevich hot on the trail of their trans forebears. This is a book about hauntings—about the ghosts that speak to us from beyond the grave, and about the all-too-human way we all haunt our own bodies. Moving, honest, spectacular, and, ultimately, hopeful.”
—Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She’s Not There, Cleavage, and (with Jodi Picoult) Mad Honey
“An irresistible adventure…a story of intimacy, capturing its vision of trans and nonbinary becoming with necessity and nerve, creating thresholds, through multiple narratives, into worlds still unseen…a major achievement, a work that will outlast us.”
—Paul Lisicky, author of Song So Wild and Blue and Later: My Life at the Edge of the World
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich’s inventive trans-fabulation reclaims the queer past in order to imagine their own queer future.”
—Nicholas Boggs, National Book Critics’ Circle Award–winning author of Baldwin: A Love Story
On Sale Feb 9, 2027
Pre-order Today:
“Both and Neither is groundbreaking, nothing short of extraordinary: a vital exploration of trans experience across past and present. Blending rigorous historical research with deeply personal memoir, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich brings to light four trans forebears long obscured by history—and reveals the paths their lives have opened for generations to come.”
—Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts
“A book we need dearly, now and forever: an account of the ways we find ourselves in history, in lovers, in bodies, and in archives. . . .The world is bigger and truer for it.”
—Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams
“Inspiring and harrowing, Both and Neither shows the brilliant Alex Marzano-Lesnevich hot on the trail of their trans forebears. This is a book about hauntings—about the ghosts that speak to us from beyond the grave, and about the all-too-human way we all haunt our own bodies. Moving, honest, spectacular, and, ultimately, hopeful.”
—Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She’s Not There, Cleavage, and (with Jodi Picoult) Mad Honey
“An irresistible adventure…a story of intimacy, capturing its vision of trans and nonbinary becoming with necessity and nerve, creating thresholds, through multiple narratives, into worlds still unseen…a major achievement, a work that will outlast us.”