We Will Plant Birds of Paradise

<h2 class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sometimes the only way to bloom is to break free</strong></h2><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jess has always followed the rules-marrying young raising two children and keeping up appearances in her small conservative town. But when she can no longer deny the truth she's kept buried for years she makes a life-altering choice: she leaves her husband and admits what's been growing in her heart-she's in love with her best friend Pam.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jess works at her aunt Louanne's beloved bakery café alongside Louanne's longtime partner Vivienne. In their open joyful home Jess catches a glimpse of what life could be like: honest messy full of flavor-and love. But Jess's journey is far from simple. Her mother Rebecca clings fiercely to her religious convictions shaped by Jess's devout grandmother who once lived as a nun. Coming out doesn't just shake Jess's world-it sends shockwaves through generations of silence shame and expectation.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As Jess steps into her truth she faces a reckoning: will she lose the people she loves most or can something new-something extraordinary-take root in the aftermath?</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Told through the voices of multiple generations </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>We Will Plant Birds of Paradise</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a tender richly drawn debut novel about queer love family loyalty inherited faith and the radical act of blooming in your own time.</span></p>