Naoise Dolan on Exciting Times, embracing queerness and autism
There is a moment in Naoise Dolan’s tour-de-force debut novel Exciting Times when Ava, the book’s main character, writes a long and winding message to Julian, her sort-of-boyfriend, about Edith, her sort-of-girlfriend. In the message, Ava says she has been thinking about Edith “more and more”. She tells Julian that she has never had sex with another woman, but she “kissed a few in college”. Then, Ava writes that she sometimes loves Julian, but other times, she wants a plane to fly into a building and for him to be either in the building or on the plane.
Source: pinknews.co.uk