{"product_id":"wild-geese-paperback","title":"Wild Geese - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSoula Emmanuel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhoebe 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. 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, \u003ci\u003eWild Geese\u003c\/i\u003e is a tale of dislocations and relocations, encounters, and accidents: a novel of past lives, messy feelings, and the desire to start afresh.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSoula Emmanuel\u003c\/b\u003e is a trans writer who was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Greek father. She attended university in Ireland and Sweden, graduating with a master's in demography which she likes to think inspired her interest in society's outliers. She has written for \u003ci\u003eIMAGE\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eRogue Collective\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Project Arts Centre, and has had fiction published by \u003ci\u003eThe Liminal Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She was longlisted for Penguin's WriteNow program in 2020, took part in the \u003ci\u003eStinging Fly\u003c\/i\u003e fiction summer school in 2021, and was a participant in the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency's mentorship program for 2021-22. She currently lives on Ireland's east coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.87 x 4.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42154503176327,"sku":"9781558610132","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7da188b49d67f8cf2f716278e2b7a0b1_c7bf8a1e-89c8-45e9-83ce-10e77d4b48ca.webp?v=1733229147","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/wild-geese-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}