Winner of the thirty-fourth annual 3-Day Novel Contest, the infamous literary marathon held every Labor Day weekend. Music journalist Evan Strocker has almost finished a book about his time with Heidegger Stairwell, a legendary indie-rock band. But the band thinks he's left a little too much of himself on the pageletting his experiences as a transgender man and his complicated "romance" with the lead guitarist eclipse the story of the group's dramatic rise and fall. Through notes and marginalia, the musicians argue over their friend's version of the truth and fight to put their own testimony on record. Kayt Burgess has an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University (UK). This is her first novel.