You CAN tell a book by its cover! I have received a lot of fan mail about this book. It tells a love story in poems. Here’s from the publisher’s website:

Blue Like Apples is a narrative collection of poems that tells a story of coming-out, through love for another woman. It is a coming of age in mid-life, after having never really discovered herself before during her long heterosexual marriage. It’s the story of a marriage of minds and bodies that began in 2003 on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, in a city in the Norwegian Arctic where they are both foreigners. The story doesn’t end…