Thekla Wilkening

Sway to stay (eBook, ePUB)

Franca and Ed

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While hate speech grows louder, borders harder, and the world increasingly fractures along rigid lines, this novel chooses another path. It lingers in the fragile, dwells in the contradictory, and listens to what remains unresolved. In doing so, it takes a quiet but unmistakable political stance. Franca loves Ed. And still, she must leave him - for herself, for her survival. Between echoes of the past and the roar of the present, between family bonds and urban restlessness, unfolds a story of closeness and rupture, of queerness and care, of violence and the fragile bravery it takes to begin again. SWAY TO STAY is searching, contradictory, quietly radical and thereby a counter-narrative: against backlash, against the right-wing rollback, against the rhetoric of fear and in favor of belief, love and the messy hope that insists on staying. Told through shifting perspectives, SWAY TO STAY maps the hidden topographies of our relationships and the courage it takes to speak, to stay, or to go.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783695108787
• Artikelnr.: 75710349

Autorenporträt

Thekla Wilkening merges the personal with the political, the everyday with the systemic - crafting literature that resonates long after the last page. She is an entrepreneur, author, and FINTA* policy spokesperson for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. For years, she has been a passionate advocate for mindful living, the circular economy, and social participation - always with an eye for the larger systems shaping our everyday lives. As co-founder of Kleiderei, Germanys first fashion sharing label, she became a pioneer of sustainable fashion in the German-speaking world, advising companies and pushing the public discourse forward. After co-authoring the nonfiction book The Organic Pizza Dilemma with public health expert Robin Haring, Wilkening now turns to fiction. In summer 2025, her literary debut SWAY TO STAY: Franca and Ed will be published, a novel about intimacy and rupture, queerness and care, survival and truth. With this work, she gives her political and personal commitment a narrative form: empathetic, radical, and quietly defiant. It is a story that calls for more understanding, for ourselves, for one another and for new narratives of belonging and community. Her personal story is deeply intertwined with her work. As the mother of a daughter with Down syndrome, she is a public advocate for inclusion, visibility, and self-determination, themes that also flow through her writing. Her essays have been published in VOGUE, Die Welt, and other leading outlets. Every week, she writes about life between conviction and vulnerability on her Substack "Von Hybris und Weltschmerz." Her creative sensibility is also rooted in family legacy: her grandfather Albert Wilkening was a central figure in the East German film industry and later chief director of the Babelsberg Film Studios. Her father, Thomas Wilkening, continued this cinematic tradition. Storytelling, for Thekla, has always been about relevance, humanity, and stance. With "SWAY TO STAY: Franca and Ed", the first volume of the "SWAY TO STAY" series - Thekla Wilkening steps into the literary spotlight.