Vernal Thaw: A novel of love at a slant - Frances (Franky) Cannon in the 2000s

in the 2000s

This book is a fiscal experiment of redistribution

Kalpesh Lathigra

eight trees

Rebecca Zorach

Vernal Thaw: A novel of love at a slant - Frances (Franky) Cannon in the 2000sVernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant traces the entangling and unraveling of a queer relationship through love and tumult over the course of a year in Vermont. Franky, a young adjunct professor haunted by encounters with violent men, falls into an intense relationship with Vera, an older neurosurgeon shaped by a childhood in homophobic Soviet era Ukraine. As they attempt to build a life together, their shared desire snags on unhealed wounds. An