Down to Earth
An 831 Stories Romance
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From the beloved cookbook author Julia Turshen, a queer love story set in your new favorite town, Sungold.
Frankie doesn’t quite know what to make of Paige, who’s just moved from Brooklyn to her quiet Upstate New York hometown with all the pressed-clothes polish of a city girl. Paige, with her eight-year-old son in tow, is seeking refuge from a rocky relationship and is equally thrown by Frankie: Why can’t she stop thinking about this eternally single, charming, gay vegetable farmer? And could the attraction she’s feeling grow into something more?
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Cookbook author Turshen (What Goes with What) makes her fiction debut with a cozy queer romance exploring what it means to start over. It kicks off with Paige and her eight-year-old son, Bobby, moving from Brooklyn to small-town Sungold in the Adirondacks during a trial separation from her husband. While shopping at a local farmers market, she meets tattooed, flannel-wearing Frankie, who owns Two Peas Farm. Frankie's business is in trouble, and when Paige offers to help out by upgrading the farm's stodgy social media presence, a simmering attraction builds between the women, in spite of their vastly different backgrounds. As a summer storm brews, threatening the farm and the community, Turshen uses Frankie's preference for all things analog to explore the tension between the desire to preserve a more traditional way of life and the benefits of modernity. The novel is cheekily self-aware about borrowing from Hallmark movies with its arc of a city dweller transformed by country living, and Turshen grounds this well-trodden fantasy in the soil and sweat-coated realities of farm labor. Add in subtle humor and a bighearted portrait of queer connection and resilience, and this is sure to charm. (June)
