(Ebook) Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary ISBN 9781646221134, 1646221133, B0B6ZPVZ6Y

(Ebook) Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary ISBN 9781646221134, 1646221133, B0B6ZPVZ6Y

For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Little Life, Juno Loves Legs is the epic and heartbreaking story of a young friendship set in working-class Dublin in the 1980s"Geary uses gorgeous prose, full of Irish lilt and hard-edged slang, to describe bleak childhoods as harsh as any found in a Dickens novel..."  -   Kirkus ReviewsJuno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labelled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, intelligent Juno is ostracized for her poverty and Legs is persecuted for his sexuality; they find safety only in each other.Set against the backdrop of Dublin in the 1980s, a place of political, social and religious change, the friends yearn for an unbound life and together they begin to fight to take up the space of who they truly are. Finding themselves as outsiders, they are feared, coveted and watched, but rarely truly seen. "It's an ode to love, to the salvation of friendship, and to the families we build when our own families fail us. Filled with loss and longing, it is by turns brutal and tender, and in the end, utterly devastating... The effect is extraordinary. Juno Loves Legs broke my heart. I never wanted it to end."  -  Douglas Stuart, author of Young Mungo and Shuggie BainJuno Loves Legs shows the frustration of feeling trapped in a life that is not yours and the ability of friendship to lift us out of our experiences and into a truer version of ourselves. It is a novel that reminds us that kindness, bravery, and love appear in places where they are not always expected and in forms not usually recognised, but with a potency that cannot be ignored.