Heavenly Days

Annie and Elise meet at a coffee shop in a part of town they are watching change for the worst. Despite the fact that Annie is leaving for Vietnam in a week, they decide to honor their instant connection for what it is: a little unhinged, possibly doomed but full of a weirdly familiar and addictive beauty they can’t quite put their fingers on.

A mix between Ghost World, Normal People and Linklater’s The Before Trilogy, Heavenly Days is a deeply emotional trans love story about how some love can feel so life-affirming yet seemingly so hard to live through.

Funny, and heartbreaking, Heavenly Days is a book that demands to not be read so much as felt.

Em (Emma Jon-Michael Frank) is the author of I Never Found You, Dark Garbage, Is This The Right Color and two collaborative books, Things To Do... with Tara Booth, and The Archway with Patrick Kyle. They live in the US.