Description
Vanu Francoeur is a gender-neutral novice in the Kinship of the Suffering God, whose mandate is to seed new stars within a stellar nursery, where jonahs (living ships descended from the whales of Old Earth) roam wild. An intimate encounter with an exotic outsider stirs up a storm of conflicts within the usually quiet religious order, and triggers a spiritual awakening in Vanu that forever changes hir relationship with hir community and hir sibs. In rebellion against the Kinship's heavy-handed sanctions, zhe hurtles towards a resolution-touched by a haunting mystery-deep within the fires of a star.
Product Details
| Publisher | Untimely Books |
| Publish Date | April 19, 2022 |
| Pages | 362 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780971663565 |
| Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.8 inches | 1.0 pounds |
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Reviews
Vanu is one of those rare characters who stays with us, pushing up against our waking dreams. Hir exquisite curiosity mobilizes worlds we can't quite fathom even as we live them. I was deeply deeply moved. What an extraordinary book."
-Erin Manning, philosopher and artist, The Minor Gesture and For a Pragmatics of the Useless
Like the far-off song of the jonahs, GeoffreyJen's creation is luminous, keening, and strange. The author is at once warm and wise on the page-fearlessly plunging the reader into re-imagined theologies, ambitious political systems, and new sexual landscapes that verge on the poetic.
-Heather Fester, poet, essayist, and author of the forthcoming chapbook Ghosts of Things Unsaid
A poetic and wondrous SF tale that grapples with gender and faith.
-Kirkus Reviews
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