pstrongIrish novelist Soula Emmanuel's debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire-charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life.strongppbrppPhoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she's overeducated and underpaid, but finally settling into her new life in Copenhagen. Almost three years into her gender transition, Phoebe has learned to move through the world carefully, savoring small moments of joy. After all, a woman without a past can be anyone she wants. But an unexpected visit from her ex-girlfriend Grace brings back memories of Dublin and the life she thought she'd left behind. Over the course of a weekend, their romance rekindles into something sweet and radically unfamiliar as Grace helps Phoebe navigate the jagged edges of nostalgia and hope.ppbrppWritten with wit and warmth, emWild Geese emis a tale of dislocations and relocations, encounters and accidents a novel of p