Fine Town

By Liz Stewart

Sharply funny, painfully honest, Fine Town is a coming-apart and a coming-home story about class, queerness, and self-delusion.

Fine Town follows twenty-five-year-old Andy after her life in the city collapses--an AI scam drains her savings, she loses her job, and she's abruptly forced out of the queer community house she thought was her refuge. With no other options, she returns reluctantly to her tiny prairie hometown, a place she fled years ago and hoped to never see again.

Back in Finetown, Andy must navigate the brittle quiet of rural life, her complicated parents, her golden-boy brother, who is still treated as the local hero after saving a life as a teenager, and his unnervingly perfect fianc e. As Andy stumbles through old memories, new tensions, and the intimacy of being truly seen again, she confronts everything she tried to outrun: her shame, her desires, her failures, and the strange tenderness of belonging to a place where she doesn't fit.

With a voice as biting as it is vulnerable, Liz Stewart captures the bewildering experience of returning to the life you once escaped, only to find new truths in the place you thought you'd left behind for good.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487014538
• ISBN13: 9781487014537
• Release Date: August 2027
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 336 Pages