Lovesick Blossoms

By: Julia Watts

Narrated by: Bailey Carr

In a small Kentucky college town in 1953, two married women desperately fall in love with each other, until a moment of indiscretion threatens to destroy both their lives.

In her new adult novel, award-winning author Julia Watts creates a compelling, emotional queer tale of power and passion. Colleagues and neighbors of Samuel and Boots are more than willing to accept their married status, even though Samuel “dresses like a boy” and the pair’s relationship is one of convenience that will never be consummated. But when Samuel meets a new professor’s wife, Frances, at a faculty party, she soon falls in love, and learns the difficulty of discretion in a small town—with tragic consequences. LAMBDA award-winning author Julia Watts (Needlework, Quiver) returns to adult fiction in this heartbreaking, yet hopeful novel. Highly recommended for fans of Lauren Groff, Rosie Walsh, and Alexandria Bellefleur.

Bittersweet

I love Julia Watt's books, but it took me a while to finish this. The feeling foreboding made me stop when I first started reading it and then again when I restarted the audio book. But I’m glad I finished it. It's very well written. As others said: infuriating and at times hopeless, and yet ending on a positive note. A bittersweet ending after so many different emotions.