Nicola Dinan

Bellies -- Nicola Dinan, Hardcover

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"Smart, hilarious and deeply moving." -ELLIOT PAGE

"The most hotly anticipated novel of the summer." -HARPER'S BAZAAR

"Triumphant and humane." --ELLE

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom's awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming's orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he's already mapped out their future together. But shortly after they move to London to start their next chapter, Ming announces her intention to transition.

From London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, we follow Tom and Ming as they face tectonic shifts in their relationship and friend circle in the wake of Ming's transition. Through a spiral of unforeseen crises--some personal, some professional, some life-altering--Tom and Ming are forced to confront the vastly different shapes their lives have taken since graduating, and each must answer the essential question: Is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you are?

Buoyed by a voice as tender, effervescent and wryly funny as the cast of characters it centers, Bellies is an unforgettable story of youth, intimacy, hunger and heartbreak, at once boldly original yet fiercely familiar, which unabashedly holds a mirror up to our most vulnerable selves and desires.

Author: Nicola Dinan
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.36w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781335490889

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2023 pg. 15
Booklist 07/01/2023 pg. 17

Product Tags:

Coming of Age, Fiction, Fiction - General, Gay men, Hanover Square Press, Hardcover, LGBTQ+, Literary, Nicola Dinan, Transgender

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