Summerhouse: A Gay Thriller
A closeted gay couple’s 40-year relationship is imperiled by a new arrival to their sleepy island paradise in this dark comedy thriller: The Birdcage as done by Highsmith

Fehmi and Şener have been together for forty years—no small feat for any pair, but especially admirable for a gay couple in Turkey. Behind closed closet doors, their life on Büyükada, an idyllic island near Istanbul, is like a powder keg that only needs one spark to make it blow. That spark soon comes in the form of Deniz, the wildly handsome and troubled teenager next door, who immediately catches Fehmi’s eye.

This “harmless” crush raises Şener’s hackles: he is horrified to see his husband made unrecognizable by his lecherous desires, and Deniz represents a sinister threat to everything Şener holds dear. Little do Deniz and Fehmi know that Şener will stop at nothing to protect his family, and if all three of them make it to the end of summer alive, it’ll be a miracle.

Dishy, emotional, and suspenseful, Yiğit Karaahmet’s debut makes a fierce political statement about gay rights in Turkey, while also introducing a shockingly lovable pair of antiheroes who could be Tom Ripley’s grandfathers.
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Summerhouse: A Gay Thriller
A closeted gay couple’s 40-year relationship is imperiled by a new arrival to their sleepy island paradise in this dark comedy thriller: The Birdcage as done by Highsmith

Fehmi and Şener have been together for forty years—no small feat for any pair, but especially admirable for a gay couple in Turkey. Behind closed closet doors, their life on Büyükada, an idyllic island near Istanbul, is like a powder keg that only needs one spark to make it blow. That spark soon comes in the form of Deniz, the wildly handsome and troubled teenager next door, who immediately catches Fehmi’s eye.

This “harmless” crush raises Şener’s hackles: he is horrified to see his husband made unrecognizable by his lecherous desires, and Deniz represents a sinister threat to everything Şener holds dear. Little do Deniz and Fehmi know that Şener will stop at nothing to protect his family, and if all three of them make it to the end of summer alive, it’ll be a miracle.

Dishy, emotional, and suspenseful, Yiğit Karaahmet’s debut makes a fierce political statement about gay rights in Turkey, while also introducing a shockingly lovable pair of antiheroes who could be Tom Ripley’s grandfathers.
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Summerhouse: A Gay Thriller

Summerhouse: A Gay Thriller

Summerhouse: A Gay Thriller

Summerhouse: A Gay Thriller

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A closeted gay couple’s 40-year relationship is imperiled by a new arrival to their sleepy island paradise in this dark comedy thriller: The Birdcage as done by Highsmith

Fehmi and Şener have been together for forty years—no small feat for any pair, but especially admirable for a gay couple in Turkey. Behind closed closet doors, their life on Büyükada, an idyllic island near Istanbul, is like a powder keg that only needs one spark to make it blow. That spark soon comes in the form of Deniz, the wildly handsome and troubled teenager next door, who immediately catches Fehmi’s eye.

This “harmless” crush raises Şener’s hackles: he is horrified to see his husband made unrecognizable by his lecherous desires, and Deniz represents a sinister threat to everything Şener holds dear. Little do Deniz and Fehmi know that Şener will stop at nothing to protect his family, and if all three of them make it to the end of summer alive, it’ll be a miracle.

Dishy, emotional, and suspenseful, Yiğit Karaahmet’s debut makes a fierce political statement about gay rights in Turkey, while also introducing a shockingly lovable pair of antiheroes who could be Tom Ripley’s grandfathers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781641295864
Publisher: Soho Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 05/27/2025
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Yiğit Karaahmet was born in the small Black Sea town of Giresun, at a time when disco, glitter, and shoulder pads were sadly on the wane. He later moved to Istanbul where he studied journalism and went on to write about nightlife, popular culture, and lifestyle for prominent newspapers and magazines. Openly gay, Karaahmet has been targeted by the fundamentalist press many times. Summerhouse is his first novel.

Nicholas Glastonbury is a cultural anthropologist of sound, media, empire, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. At present he is a postdoctoral associate in the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University. Glastonbury holds a PhD in Anthropology and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A translator of Turkish and Kurdish literature, he is a co-editor of the e-zine Jadaliyya.
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