Join Nicola Dinan, Queer London-based Author to Celebrate incredible debut, Bellies, in Virtual Event!

Left Bank Books welcomes Hong Kong/Kuala Lumpur-raised, London-based debut author Nicola Dinan, who will discuss the book that Elliot Page says is "smart, hilarious and deeply moving" Bellies, on Saturday, August 5th at 12pm CT / 1pm ET in an online event. Order copies of Bellies from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores! **About the Book** It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom's awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming's orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he's already mapped out their future together. But shortly after they move to London to start their next chapter, Ming announces her intention to transition. From London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, we follow Tom and Ming as they face tectonic shifts in their relationship and friend circle in the wake of Ming's transition. Through a spiral of unforeseen crises--some personal, some professional, some life-altering--Tom and Ming are forced to confront the vastly different shapes their lives have taken since graduating, and each must answer the essential question: Is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you are? Buoyed by a voice as tender, effervescent and wryly funny as the cast of characters it centers, Bellies is an unforgettable story of youth, intimacy, hunger and heartbreak, at once boldly original yet fiercely familiar, which unabashedly holds a mirror up to our most vulnerable selves and desires.