Hurricane Heaney

Hurricane Heaney is a fish-out-of-water memoir of a gay Indonesian man, Ben, who finds himself marrying into a salt-of-the-earth Irish family. Unlike many stories involving LGBTQ+ protagonists, this is not a tragic tale about a traumatic coming out, nor even about the novelty of living in a gay marriage in Ireland's catholic bible belt.It's about how landing in the loving arms of a large yet close family acts as an emotional mirror to Ben's early life in Indonesia, giving him, in fact, a safe sp