Swans
United States

Swans

by Claire Luchette

Summary

March 1970. With postal workers on strike, seventeen-year-old Sibby escapes a conversion camp and hits the road with a letter for the woman she loves. Along the way, she meets Lee, a woman transporting two swans to Ohio, and the pair begin delivering messages across the Midwest. As they invent stories about the people behind the letters, an unexpected love story begins to unfold between them. Funny, tender, and unconventional, Swans explores queer love, self-invention, and the freedom to imagine a different life.

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Claire Luchette
Claire Luchette

Claire Luchette is an American novelist whose fiction explores unconventional lives, loneliness, identity, and the search for belonging. Their debut novel, Agatha of Little Neon (2021), follows a young Catholic sister navigating faith, friendship, and life outside the convent. The book received widespread critical acclaim, and Luchette was named one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honorees. Their short fiction and essays have appeared in literary publications including Granta, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Luchette has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. They teach creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Published
2027
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Claire Luchette