Wild Geese tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scandinavia with her anxious dog, Dolly. Overeducated and underpaid, Phoebe is finally settling into her new life when she unexpectedly reconnects with her first and only girlfriend from before her transition, igniting memories she thought she’d left behind.
Wild Geese is a novel about my ex a trans woman who accidentally rekindles an old flame with the ex she had pre-transition.
Together, they walk through Copenhagen, the city where Phoebe, the protagonist, moved from Dublin. Her ex visits for the first time. They spend the weekend together, dissecting their old life and their new one, wondering how much of this can still work after so many changes.
It’s a beautiful, poetic, sometimes gut-wrenching novel. I loved it and would recommend it to any type of audience.
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