Dinan, Nicola - Disappoint Me
Dinan, Nicola - Disappoint Me
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Disappoint Me
Author: Nicola Dinan
Genre: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Pages: 273
Publisher: Doubleday, imprint of Transworld Publishers
Release Date: January 23, 2025
Synopsis:
After a rough tumble and maybe-serious head injury, a disillusioned trans poet falls for a charming corporate lawyer in a love story that grapples with the explosive ghosts of relationships past, romantic and familial, from the Lambda Award-nominated author of Bellies, Nicola Dinan
“Fell down the stairs and woke up a trad wife.”
Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. With a lifetime of dysphoria and fuccbois rattling around in her head, Max is plagued with a deep dissatisfaction during what should be the best years of her life. After taking a spill down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party, she decides to make some changes. First things first: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity.
Max thinks she’s found the answer in Vincent, a corporate lawyer and hobby baker, whose trad friendship group may as well speak a foreign language, and whose Chinese parents never pictured their son dating a trans woman. This uncharted territory may have rough terrain, but Vincent cares for Max in a way she’d long given up on as a foolish fantasy.
Yet Vincent is carrying his own baggage from his gap year in Thailand a decade prior: an explosive entanglement with a mysterious, gorgeous traveler. Voice-driven, warm, and poignant, Disappoint Me is an exploration of millennial angst, race, trans panic, and the allure of bourgeois domesticity that asks if we are defined by our worst mistakes.
LGBT Themes:
- Transgender
- Max, a trans woman, enters into a heteronormative relationship with a straight man
Relevant Tags:
Fiction, Queer, Contemporary, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Romance, Queer Lit, Adult, Transgender, Novels
