Books like The Twyborn Affair
Before the First World War, Eudoxia Vatzatzis lives as the young companion of an elderly Greek on the French Riviera, the first of the lives of Eddie Twyborn, a Sydney judge's son.
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The Vivisector
Hurtle Duffield, sold as a small boy by his poor parents to a rich Sydney family, grows up to become a painter who will use everyone he loves as material.
The Eye of the Storm
Elizabeth Hunter, old, rich and dying in her Sydney house, receives her children, an actor from London and a princess by marriage from France, who have come home for the inheritance.
Our Lady of the Flowers
In a prison cell, the narrator, Jean, conjures out of his solitude the Montmartre underworld of Divine, a drag queen, her pimp Darling and the young murderer called Our Lady of the Flowers.
Nightwood
In Paris and Berlin between the wars, a circle of exiles orbits the restless, unreachable Robin Vote, and her abandoned lover Nora pours out her grief to a garrulous, unlicensed doctor in a novel of baroque, incantatory prose.
The Well of Loneliness
Stephen Gordon, named by a father who wanted a son, grows up at Morton Hall in Worcestershire knowing she loves women, and looks for a place for herself as a writer, an ambulance driver in the war and in the lesbian salons of Paris.
The Garden of Eden
A young American writer and his new wife honeymoon on the French Riviera in the 1920s, where her games with haircuts, tans and gender, and then the arrival of another woman, test the marriage and his work. Published long after his death.
Detransition, Baby
A trans woman, her ex-boyfriend, and his pregnant wife form an unlikely family in New York, navigating parenthood, identity, and who gets to start over.
The Human Stain
A classics professor in late-1990s New England takes a young mistress and watches his carefully constructed life collapse under the weight of a secret he's kept for fifty years.
Benang
Harley, a young Noongar man whose white grandfather set out to breed the Aboriginality out of the family, floats in the air as he tells his family's history in Western Australia.
Maps
Askar, an orphan raised by Misra, an Ethiopian woman in the Ogaden, grows up as war comes between Somalia and Ethiopia, and between him and the woman who raised him.
Giovanni's Room
An American in 1950s Paris confronts his homosexuality through a love affair with an Italian man, and the novel's claustrophobic intensity mirrors the impossibility of the closet.
Nevada
Maria Griffiths, a trans woman working at a New York bookstore, is dumped by her girlfriend, takes her car and drives west, where in a Nevada Walmart she meets James, a young man she suspects is trans and doesn't know it yet.