Two men meet on a Greek Island in 1995. Johnny Reed is a gifted actor who made an auspicious Broadway debut, heralded as “the next Sidney Poitier.” When the play is sold to Hollywood and his drama-school best friend, Dorrie, becomes the girlfriend of a powerful, vindictive film agent, Johnny and Dorrie’s surreptitious sexual friendship brings professional retribution. This, and the violent death of his musician uncle, causes Johnny to re-evaluate his life in white America. When a touring musical about New York’s legendary Stonewall riots takes him to Athens, he falls in love with Soula, a Greek tour guide. They marry, and move to Hydra, where their daughter, Marilena, is born.Theddo Daniels, 62, is an African-American leader, and a closeted homosexual in the early stages of AIDS. He has just chaired a Diaspora Conference in Greece, “the cradle of the Whitefolks’ whole thing.” Future uncertain, he decides to stay awhile on the island, to write a memoir around his relationship with a young Swedish dance, Bjorn Nilsson, who tells him “You belong to two groups, but only fight for one.” Set in Greece, Sweden, New York, LA and London, TRANSIENT DANCING is a character rich, frequently funny, wonderful novel. Ultimately, it is about how we wander and where we land.

Gale Zoë Garnett's first novel was the internationally acclaimed VISIBLE AMAZEMENT, now available from McArthur & Company. She also writes short stories, poetry, essays, and is a contributing book editor for The Globe and Mail. As an actor, she has appeared in theatre, television, radio and in such feature films as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge and Tribute. Her belongings live in Toronto, where she sometimes lives with them.

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