Wild Geese
The Feminist Press at CUNY · Paperback · September 22, 2023
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel’s debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire—charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.
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- Who it’s for
- A queer romance pick with a sharp, layered feel and easy page-turn energy.
- Genres
- Transgender Fiction, Lesbian Fiction, Contemporary Irish Fiction
- Published
- The Feminist Press at CUNY, September 22, 2023
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Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel’s debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire—charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life. Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she’s overeducated and underpaid, but finally settling into her new life in Copenhagen.
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Almost three years into her gender transition, Phoebe has learned to move through the world carefully, savoring small moments of joy. After all, a woman without a past can be anyone she wants. But an unexpected visit from her ex-girlfriend Grace brings back memories of Dublin and the life she thought she’d left behind. Over the course of a weekend, their romance rekindles into something sweet and radically unfamiliar as Grace helps Phoebe navigate the jagged edges of nostalgia and hope. Written with wit and warmth, Wild Geese is a tale of dislocations and relocations, encounters, and accidents: a novel of past lives, messy feelings, and the desire to start afresh.
Sharp Feel
A queer romance pick with a sharp, layered feel and easy page-turn energy.
Come here for
- queer romance shelf appeal
- edgy, serious-leaning tone
Expect
- sustained narrative read
- something you can dip into daily
Where it sits
| Transgender Fiction | 87% |
|---|---|
| Lesbian Fiction | 55% |
| Contemporary Irish Fiction | 50% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Transgender Fiction
- Feminist Fiction
- Contemporary Irish Fiction
- Authors
- Soula Emmanuel
- Publisher
- The Feminist Press at CUNY
- Published
- September 22, 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Transgender Fiction