Blue Year: A Literary Lesbian Erotic Novel

Annemarie Monahan’s second novel, Blue Year, delivers deep, blushing pleasures while also offering lasting insights into love and desire.

The novel is composed of the erotic recollections and encounters of a lesbian of a certain age, unfolding across the changing seasons of the narrator's past and her present blue year. She is a woman who is anything but done with passion.

Yet these scenes are more than just a series of romantic adventures. Monahan uses them as occasions for reflection, humor, grief, and meditations on what it means to love women both individually and universally.

Blue Year is for readers who want all the heat of intense erotic fiction without separating desire from thought. Monahan writes about loving women with equal show more measures of sensuality, uproariousness, longing, bliss, and meaning, producing a novel whose ambitions are as expansive as its pleasures. show less