This book is a stunner! It’s a story collection that grapples with competing loyalties to family, self, community, and love, with several of the stories returning to the same two sisters.
It’s wonderful to see them in different settings, and different points in their lives. And the way in which McCauley weaves words into silken fire, capturing the rhythm and texture of life, makes this book perfect for anyone in love with language!
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond--and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms
Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in When Trying to Return Home dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free from her damaging influence during a desperate and disastrous attempt…
This book has it all: negligent parents, explosive femininity, inscrutable magic, government coverups, simmering romance, and the best bildungsroman I’ve ever read.
In it, women are spontaneously turning into dragons, and often destroying homes and offices and lovers in the process. It takes place in 1950s America, during the whole “we’re better than the Soviets, and don’t let anyone tell you different” phase of our history, which is definitely a wink and a nod to the times we’re currently living.
I’ve made up my mind: 2024 will be the year that I dragon.
A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2022 • A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. • The first adult novel by the Newbery award-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass Dragoning of 1955, when hundreds of thousands of ordinary wives and mothers sprouted wings, scales, and talons; left a…
I still say, the best way to get people to read a book is to ban it. If you want to understand gender diversity, then Gender Queer is a great place to start.
If you want to understand why this book is controversial, then I can’t help you. I think maybe some people are just scared of giving the rest of us the freedom to be ourselves. What I can say is, this book explained a lot to me—about me.
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns,
thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical
comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable
with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely
cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the
mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come
out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and
facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to
explain to eir family…
Facing financial trouble, Beth, a Black divorcee with two kids, moves back to the Midwest to live with her white father, only to find him with a live-in girlfriend, Linda, a girl Beth babysat in high school.
After returning home, Beth rekindles an old affair with a married man; she is also forced to address the town’s benign racism, as well as the abuse she experienced as a young child in her neighbor’s care, both issues which her father has long refused to acknowledge. This is a story about the rage boiling inside a woman who has been quiet for too long.
