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    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Swans

Swans

Luchette, Claire

Hardcover

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $27.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 16, 2027

ISBN10: 0374618712
ISBN13: 9780374618711
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Mar 16 2027
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

A tender, exuberant tale of hitchhiking, lonely hearts, and queer dreaming, set during the great postal workers' strike of 1970, Swans is the captivating second novel by the award-winning author of Agatha of Little Neon.

It is March 1970, and the postal workers are on strike. Armed with a fold-up knife, a sock full of nickels, and a letter to the woman she loves, Sibby is on the run. An avid lonely-hearts correspondent, she escapes a conversion camp and hitches north, making her way through the kindness of strangers. Then she meets Lee, who is driving a pair of swans to Ohio: with the mail stopped, everyone has to be their own mail carrier, criss-crossing the Midwest to deliver or retrieve what they would have otherwise dropped in the post--a baby gift, a pension check, a crate of baby chicks, a love letter. When a gas station clerk asks Sibby and Lee to take an important message to a woman in another county, they begin to tell each other stories about the correspondents, crafting a happy queer love story, even as their own begins. But road trips are never without detours, unexpected passengers, and mechanical failures. Sibby and Lee meet a stranger at a motel who needs a ride north, and they find themselves drawn into a whole new set of adventures that complicate their mission and force them to confront their feelings and choices. Are they scabs for delivering the letter? Can a draft card be canceled? How do we know if a story is ours to tell? And if an identity is made up, is it not real?

Tender, funny, and insightful, Claire Luchette's Swans is a story of self-invention, disarming connection, little-known history, winding roads, and rewriting the future.

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