Lovesick Blossoms

In Julia Watt's stunning adult novel, set in1953, two married women struggle to come to terms with their deepening love for each other in a small college town in Kentucky, against a backdrop of racism, sexism, and complete rejection of same-sex liaisons. In 1953 Collinsville, Kentucky, a small college town, colleagues and neighbors of Samuel and Boots are more than willing to accept their married status, even though their official relationship is one of convenience that will never be consummated. Boots, an English professor at Millwood College for Women, has long had clandestine affairs with muscular men, while Samuel dodges questions about her disinterest in motherhood. But when Samuel meets a new professor's wife, Frances, at a faculty party, she soon falls in love, and learns the difficulty of discretion in a town that doesn't accept the idea of two women sleeping together. The tragic consequences of a past once thought long-gone reflect present-day trends in this extraordinary novel of passion in the face of societal intolerance. LAMBDA award-winning author Julia Watts (Needlework, Quiver) returns to adult fiction in this consummate historical work.

• | Author: Julia Watts
• | Publisher: Three Rooms Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 24, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1953103421
• | ISBN-13: 9781953103420