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Pub Date May 05 2026 | Archive Date Not set

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Description

A smoldering, soul-splitting debut that tracks three friends through the celestial chaos of adulthood, love, and queer identity.

Jordan Caleb is a freshman at McCallen College when she meets Trace. From the moment the confident, tattooed Trace compliments Jordan’s Alanis Morissette T-shirt, their friendship feels fated and electrically charged. When the two friends meet mercurial transfer student Silvia, she catches Trace’s eye. Their instant attraction eclipses the nascent pull between Jordan and Trace, forming a messy constellation among the three women.

Over the course of a decade, their orbits send them to opposite coasts: Jordan builds a life in New York City, while Trace and Silvia get engaged in Seattle, yet the three remain linked by the gravitational pull of the past. As they approach thirty and the apogee of their Saturn return, their bond splinters when Trace calls Jordan with a shocking revelation, exposing a web of heartache, secrets, and unspoken desires.

Saturn Returning charts the complex paths of human connection and queer friendship, questioning how we define ourselves against the relationships that have shaped our lives.

A smoldering, soul-splitting debut that tracks three friends through the celestial chaos of adulthood, love, and queer identity.

Jordan Caleb is a freshman at McCallen College when she meets Trace...


Advance Praise

“Kim Narby’s Saturn Returning explores a love triangle over the span of ten years and calmly, sweetly asks us to consider relationships as The Argo—but how many kinds of change can they endure before they are no longer the same ship that set sail?”—A.E. Osworth, author of Awakening

“Kim Narby’s Saturn Returning explores a love triangle over the span of ten years and calmly, sweetly asks us to consider relationships as The Argo—but how many kinds of change can they endure before...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781967967087
PRICE $19.95 (USD)
PAGES 320

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SATURN RETURNING is exactly what I love in a sapphic read -- the messiness of DYKETTE, the earnestness of OLD ENOUGH, the complex yet breezy conversations about sexuality of DETRANSITION, BABY. I read this book in one sitting -- it was compulsive, I literally could not put it down. These characters are so complex and interesting and flawed and relatable and vulnerable, I fell in love with them and was rooting for them and chastising them the whole entire story. Narby's prose are so lyrical and cutting, I cried several times and would recommend it to everyone!!

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