Blue Hour

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A timely aching meditation on how haunted pasts and oppressive powers shape our longing for intimacy safety and a self that feels whole.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lacy travels to Italy with her mother and sister still reeling from her father's prison sentence for exploiting her images online. There she meets Sam grappling with the recent death of his abusive father left to manage the emotional fallout of his mother. In each other they find a moment of solace from the chaos of their lives. But when Lacy leaves abruptly they part without full names or phone numbers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Years pass shaped by grief family scars and the daily work of survival. When they cross paths again now held by a queer loving community they're faced with a question: can love survive the systems built to suppress it?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tender poetic and quietly radical <em>Blue Hour </em>is for lovers of literary fiction and sensual emotionally rich romance. A novel full of yearning that dares to imagine hope as resistance and love as a revolutionary act.</strong></p>