DEBUT NOVEL OUT NOW
Blue Hour
Laida Lee’s Blue Hour is a timely, aching meditation on how haunted pasts and oppressive powers shape our longing for intimacy, safety, and a self that feels whole.Lacy travels to Italy with her mother and sister, still reeling from her father’s prison sentence for exploiting her images online. There, she meets Sam, grappling with the recent death of his abusive father, left to manage the emotional fallout of his mother. In each other, they find a moment of solace from the chaos of their lives. But when Lacy leaves abruptly, they part without full names or phone numbers.Years pass, shaped by grief, family scars, and the daily work of survival. When they cross paths again, now held by a queer, loving community, they’re faced with a question: can love survive the systems built to suppress it?Tender, sultry, and quietly radical, Lacy and Sam tell a story about healing together in a world that insists you go it alone.
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Laida Lee is a Malaysian Canadian author whose stories explore how love, romantic, communal, and self, can help us find beauty and hope in a world shaped by suffering.Rooted in her queer identity and political consciousness, her work confronts social and political issues, offering both critique and comfort in response to a life under fascism, capitalism, and patriarchy. Her debut novel, Blue Hour, is a romance that follows diverse, complex characters in their pursuit of self-actualizing love.She lives in Toronto with her partner and dog, surrounded by a supportive system of family and friends who inspire her writing.
