Bronwyn Fischer Weighs In on the Age-Gap Discourse

Canadian author Bronwyn Fischer’s debut novel, The Adult, is a queer coming-of-age narrative that tells the story of first-year college student Natalie’s romantic involvement with Nora, a woman in her late 30s whom she meets on a park bench in Toronto. With poetic prose and a twisty plot, The Adult is a portrait of teenage angst and yearning, as well as an exploration of all the choices one makes and the selves one meets while becoming, and being, an adult. 

I spoke with Fischer about evolving into a writer, the difference between wanting and yearning, and the complicated legacy of manipulative queer women in media.

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