Book Launch: Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant, Franky Cannon

Join us for the launch of Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant by Franky Cannon on Thursday 21 May at 4pm.

Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant traces the entangling and unraveling of a queer relationship through love and tumult over the course of a year in Vermont. Franky, a young adjunct professor haunted by encounters with violent men, falls into an intense relationship with Vera, an older neurosurgeon shaped by a childhood in homophobic Soviet-era Ukraine. As they attempt to build a life together, their shared desire snags on unhealed wounds. An ambiguous darkness drifts between literature, dreams, and reality—ghostly forms beneath the ice, a midwinter house flood, the death of a mutual friend, secret longings—testing the tenuous intimacy between Franky and Vera.

About the author: 

Franky (Frances) Cannon is a writer, editor, and artist based in Scotland and Vermont. She is the Reviews Editor for Poetry Wales, an editorial reader for The Kenyon Review, and an affiliated scholar at Kenyon College, where she recently completed the Mellon Science and Nature Writing Fellowship. She has an MFA from the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, and a BA from the University of Vermont. She is the author and illustrator of several books: Walter Benjamin Reimagined (MIT Press), Fling Diction (Green Writers Press), Tropicalia (Vagabond Press), The Highs and Lows of Shapeshift Ma and Big-Little Frank (Gold Wake Press), Queer Flora, Fauna, and Funga: A Radical Forage Through Art and Writing (Valiz Press), and Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant, (Set Margins' Press). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, Gutter, Saraband, The Kenyon Review, North American Review, and other publications. Franky also edits a digital platform on queer ecologies, queerflora.org, and you can read and view her creative projects at frankyfrancescannon.com

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Vernal Thaw: A Novel of Love at a Slant by Franky Cannon

The Library Project will also be hosting an event at the International Literature Festival Dublin on 21 May at 12:30pm in Merrion Square. This event will be Free but booking is required. 

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