Genre:
Literary / General Fiction
Themes:
Adventure / Survival
Against All Odds
Danger / In Peril / On the Run
Growing Older
Self-Discovery
Heat Level:
Sweet (kissing, holding hands, etc., but no other on-the-page physical intimacy)
Archetypes:
Botanist / Gardener
Geographic Location:
Middle East
Setting:
Desert
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Bi or Pansexual
Lesbian
Nonbinary / Gender Fluid
Queer
Questioning
They
By Janet Mason
THEY is a groundbreaking work that will prove to be lifesaving for those in the LGBT community and enlightening and liberating to others.
In this novel, we met Tamar from the Hebrew Bible. Tamar lives as a hermit in the desert, is content with her life and is happily barren. She is attached to her pet camel. Her aversion to goat sacrifices becomes so strong that it prompts her to become a vegetarian. Tamar has a twin sister Tabitha who becomes pregnant after seducing a young muscular shepherd. Tamar plots with Tabitha to trick Judah (a patriarch from the Bible) into believing that the baby is his so that she can have status in society rather than being burnt at the stake. Tabitha gives birth to twins. Tamar becomes attached to the children (born intersex), who call her auntie, and follows their line of intersex twins.
