Makara

by Kristen Ringman

Book, 2012

Publication

Handtype Press (2012), 174 pages

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2013)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: Two main characters (cisgender girls/women) have/have had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Intersecting Marginalized Identities: One main bisexual character is Asian, Indian. The other bisexual character is deaf.

Publisher's Summary: What if you grew up with a seal mother and a human father? Fionnuala is such a daughter: a part-human, part-seal Deaf woman who falls in love with Neela, a Hearing woman in India. While growing up with Neela’s family in Tamil Nadu, she struggles with her distant parents living apart in Ireland and Indonesia. Eventually her father brings her to Venice where she becomes a mime artist. What binds them all together is the unstoppable undercurrent of ache running through the sea of their lives.

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