SATURN RETURNING follows three queer best friends tangled in an unexpected love triangle that forces them to confront decades-buried truths, and which threatens to tear apart the chosen- family they’ve spent years creating.
Saturn Returning follows three longtime friends—Jordan, Trace, and Silvia—as they navigate the emotional upheaval of their Saturn Return. Jordan, a New York-based photographer, has spent a decade as the third wheel to Trace and Silvia’s intense relationship. Just before Christmas, Trace confesses secret feelings for Jordan, disrupting the trio’s fragile balance. Days later, Silvia arrives at Jordan’s doorstep, furious and vulnerable. As the two women spend the holidays together, they confront the unresolved tensions between them.
Flashing back to their college years at McCallen, a small Midwestern school, we see the trio’s bond form—Trace, the charismatic RA; Silvia, a magnetic presence; and Jordan, newly independent and drawn to both. Now, ten years later, each must unravel their enmeshed connections and decide what to leave behind in order to move forward.
The novel SATURN RETURNING is told from three perspectives in alternating timelines, exploring the human search for connection and love, the bounds of queer friendship, and the pressure that aging puts on our closest relationships. SATURN RETURNING shows the beauty and power of queer family and proves that the family you make can hurt you just as much as the one you’re born into.
SATURN RETURNING has the messy queer friendship of Jenny Fran Davis’s Dykette, and the tender coming-of-age of Haley Jakobson’s Old Enough. The upmarket, lyrical prose will be familiar to fans of Celeste Ng and Lily King. SATURN RETURNING’s propelling structure is reminiscent of Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods, painting a larger picture as the story unfolds.
Kim is represented by Jo Ramsay.
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