A Language Of Limbs

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A beautifully inventive, tender novelthe authors first to be published in the U.S.following two lives as they almost intersect over three heartbreaking yet euphoric decadesA Language of Limbs is a breathtaking spin on a will-they-wont-they love story it is a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community, and how joy is found in even the darkest corners.Newcastle, Australia, . 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, poetically called Limb One and Limb Two, we trace the two versions of a life that follow.In Limb One, a teenage girl is caught kissing her neighbor and is kicked from her home in continuing to run, she chooses a new life for herself. 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 Limb Two, 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.During pivotal moments, the physical space between Limb One and Limb Two closes and they almost intersectlike when they each meet the first great loves of their lives in 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 crisisand from classrooms to art galleries, beds to bars, and hospitals to homeswe witness these two lives shadow each other until, finally, they collide.