{"product_id":"language-limbs-9780593852712-new","title":"A Language of Limbs","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction\u003cbr\u003eOne of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] gay, literary \u003ci\u003eSliding Doors\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heartbreaking and not to be forgotten.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--USA Today\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \"Best Books of the Year\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA breathtaking, will-they-won't-they love story and a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community and how joy is found in even the darkest corners.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eNewcastle, Australia, 1972. On a sticky summer night, a choice must be made: To give in to queer desire or suppress it? To venture into the unknown or stay the course? In alternating chapters, we trace the two versions of a life that follow. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eIn one, a teenage girl is caught kissing her neighbor and is kicked out from her home. She lands at a queer communal home in Sydney called Uranian House, where she meets the people who will forever become her family. Meanwhile, in the second, a teenage girl pushes down her lustful dreams of her best friend and eventually makes her way to a university in Sydney to study English literature. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eDuring pivotal moments, the physical space between these two women closes--like when they each meet the first great loves of their lives in 1977 at a protest, or when, almost a decade later, they are both rushed to the hospital with only a curtain between them. Through the AIDS crisis--and from classrooms to art galleries, beds to bars and hospitals to homes--we witness these two lives shadow each other until, finally and poignantly, they collide.","brand":"DUTTON BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67780245979426,"sku":"9780593852712-new","price":23.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780593852712.jpg?v=1794452475","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/language-limbs-9780593852712-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}