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Author_Jen Michalski
bikini kill
bisexual
bisexual romance
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family drama
grief
le tigre
LGBT
LGBTQ+
post-riot grrrl
punk feminism
queer romance
reinventing oneself
riot grrrl
romance novel
self-acceptance
sleater-kinney
southern california
unrequited love
van life
Product details
- ISBN 9781684426089
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist (LGBTQ+ Fiction)
For fans of Modern Lovers and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a tender queer romance about one woman’s rediscovery of choice, hope, and wild love in the wake of her husband’s coma.When Lacie Johnson’s husband, Derek, suffers a stroke at forty-seven and falls into a coma, her plans come to a screeching halt—asking Derek for a divorce, going back to school to get her master’s, and starting over as a single woman now that their children have grown up. But what begins as a disaster brings an unexpected blessing in the form of Quinn, a kind stranger whom Lacie meets in the halls of the hospital.This is just a stop-over for Quinn, who is traveling up to the British Columbia coast to live in a co-op of grief survivors on a remote island after the loss of her young daughter. She's also the former singer of a post-riot grrrl band who fled the group and the public eye more than fifteen years ago for reasons unknown. Lacie thinks she's discovered in Quinn the life and the person she’s always wanted. But Quinn harbors a secret that connects her to Derek. And if Derek wakes up, Quinn must come clean and risk destroying her growing relationship with Lacie.Told in alternating points of view, All This Can Be True follows Lacie and Quinn as they make the journey to each other—and then grapple with the fallout.
Jen Michalski is the author of three novels, three short story collections, and a couplet of novellas. Her latest collection of fiction, The Company of Strangers, was an Electric Literature's "Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Summer" and a 2023 Baltimore Magazine's Best of Baltimore winner. Her last novel, You'll Be Fine, was a 2021 Buzzfeed "Best Small Press Book," a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, and was selected as one of the "Best Books We Read This Year" by the Independent Press Review. She's the editor of the weekly online literary magazine jmww and currently lives in Southern California, although she will always be a Baltimore girl at heart. Visit her at jenmichalski.com.
