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Love in Exile

Love in Exile

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Following the success of her debut bestseller The Transgender Issue, Shon Faye returns with a powerful memoir of her lessons in love in all its forms. Wise, funny, unsparing, and suffused with a radical clarity, Love in Exile is a book of and for our times: for seeing and knowing love, in all of its politicised forms, as the meaning of life itself.

Shon Faye’s experience of the world as a trans woman, who grew up visibly queer, exacerbated her quiet obsession with the feeling that love was not for her. As she confronted her damaging ideas about love and lovelessness, she came to realize that this sense of exclusion is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our culture.

Love, she argues, is as much a collective question as a personal one. Yet our collective ideals of love have developed in a society which is itself profoundly sick and loveless; in which consumer capitalism sells us ever new, engrossing fantasies of becoming more loved or lovable. Love in Exile posits love’s boundaries as something far broader than the narrow ideals we have been taught to crave. Wise, funny, unsparing, and suffused with a radical clarity, this is a book of and for our times: for seeing and knowing love, in whatever form it takes, is the meaning of life itself.

Author bio

Shon Faye is author of the acclaimed bestsellers The Transgender Issue and Love in Exile. Her writing focuses on pop culture, gender, sexuality and mental health, with publications across the Guardian, Independent, British Vogue and VICE among others. She was formerly a video content maker for Novara Media and podcast host for two series of Call Me Mother, a series interviewing LGBTQ+ elders. Faye now writes Dear Shon, an advice column about dating and relationships for American Vogue. 

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