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Love in Exile

Love in Exile

by Shon Faye

FSG Originals ·2025 ·224 pages
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About This Book

As a trans person who grew up visibly queer prior to transition, Faye's life has alienated her from many of society's heterosexual here she unpicks these assumptions with wit and devastating clarity. Having spent much of her late twenties and early thirties trying – and often failing – to find the relationship, career, sex life and social life she equated with happiness and success, Faye began to realise that many of the women around her were also burning out in pursuit of these ideals, where the stakes seemed high and the rewards often disappointing. If we reject this idea of what a young woman's life should be, Faye asks, what comes next?


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"With language as crisp and passionate as that found in her report on systemic transphobia and social justice, The Transgender Issue (2021), Faye's book deliberates over the pleasures and pitfalls of relationships, navigating them in a way that will appeal to all readers, regardless of their sexuality."

Kirkus Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"Faye blends the strictly personal with the broadly universal just as seamlessly as if there were no space between the two."

Philippa Snow· Bookforum Read review ↗ Top of the Pile

"Love in Exile is more enlightening when Faye suggests specific changes we can effect–on an individual level–to make our relationships more enriching ..."

Kitty Drake· The Guardian Read review ↗ Near the Top

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