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Vernal Thaw A novel of love at a slant

Vernal 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 ambiguous darkness drifts between literature, dreams, and reality—ghostly forms beneath the ice, a midwinter house flood, the death of a mutual friend, secret longings—testing the tenuous intimacy between Franky and Vera. TROUBLING AND DELICIOUS—Daisy Hildyard, author of Hunters in the Snow, The Second Body, and Emergency With candid prose and warm, precise emotional intelligence, Frances Cannon crafts an immersive novel about the mythic, shapeshifting nature of intimacy and the patterns of violence that linger in the landscape of home and m

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Aggiornato il 10/06/2026