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But wherever you prefer to flip pag, you’ll want somethg queer to read over the g months.</p><p>Fortunately, there are so many great <a href=" target="_blank">LGBTQ+ books</a> g out soon, enough to keep you entertaed (and enlightened) all summer long. You van vis the streets of Baltimore R. Eric Thomas’s Y A but <em>The Kgs of B’More</em> or head off to the mounta town of San Felipe, Mexi Brenda Lozano’s beguilg <em>Wch.</em> This next stretch of 2022 is packed wh queer lerature for every place, taste, and mood; read on to disver 10 tl to add to your Hot (Queer) Book Summer readg list.</p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em><strong>Kgs of B’More</strong></em> <strong>by R. 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There is so much here to chew on: enomic and food secury, tenants’ rights, g to one’s own, queer romance, immigratn, and the valy of iendship. <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>All This Could Be Different</em></a> is an epic and betiful first novel om a wrer to watch.</p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em><strong>Wch</strong></em> <strong>by Brenda Lozano trans. by Heather Cleary (Augt 16,</strong> <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><strong>Catapult</strong></a><strong>)</strong></div><div data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn eOBUm product-embed product-embed--image-left" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Wch by Brenda Lozano, trans. by Heather Cleary","brand":{"name":""},"id":"628d287813d5a4a9bbcec5e7","offers":[{"offerUrl":"24","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hSmufO kvPWzs bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="Image may nta: Novel, Book, Animal, Bird, Advertisement, and Poster" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embed__ntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb kcVySP"><div id="628d287813d5a4a9bbcec5e7" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd jsgzTv fCVfVZ">Wch by Brenda Lozano, trans. by Heather Cleary</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embed__cta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd hBwhMM product-offer-list__offer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV fbJiRZ product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$24atBookshop"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="628d287813d5a4a9bbcec5e7" aria-label="$24 at Bookshop" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ gJNxgH dBEvYj button button--primary-pair product-offer__buy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN hzwRuG button__label"><span>$24</span> at Bookshop</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>Brenda Lozano is a Mexin wrer wh several works unr her belt, cludg her 2014 novel <em>Cuarno ial</em>, which was translated to English unr the tle <em>Loop</em> 2019, wng the PEN Award upon translatn. This new novel opens wh the murr of a character named Paloma. Paloma was also a tradnal healer named Gaspar, and before her ath she tght her Feliciana all of her knowledge. When a reporter named Zoe is sent to report on Paloma’s ath, she meets Feliciana, and their liv bee entwed. <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Wch</em></a> is a terrific read om a wrer who explor the power of the feme a world set on narrowly fg and beltlg .</p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em><strong>Diary of a Misf</strong></em> <strong>by Casey Parks (Augt 23,</strong> <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><strong>Knopf</strong></a><strong>)</strong></div><div data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn eOBUm product-embed product-embed--image-left" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Diary of a Misf by Casey Parks","brand":{"name":""},"id":"628d28f113d5a4a9bbcec5ec","offers":[{"offerUrl":"27","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hSmufO kvPWzs bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="Image may nta: Art, Advertisement, and Poster" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embed__ntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb kcVySP"><div id="628d28f113d5a4a9bbcec5ec" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd jsgzTv fCVfVZ">Diary of a Misf by Casey Parks</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embed__cta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd hBwhMM product-offer-list__offer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV fbJiRZ product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$27atBookshop"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="628d28f113d5a4a9bbcec5ec" aria-label="$27 at Bookshop" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ gJNxgH dBEvYj button button--primary-pair product-offer__buy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN hzwRuG button__label"><span>$27</span> at Bookshop</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>In this stunng work of memoir and reportage, Casey Parks, a longtime journalist who currently vers genr and fay issu for the <em>Washgton Post</em>, wr about her Southern upbrgg, tailg how g out as a lbian 2002 ntributed to a ght relatnship wh her mother, her home, and her fah. But the story gets even more endlsly tertg when Parks’ grandmother tells her about her childhood neighbor, scribed by the olr relative as a “woman who lived as a man” named Roy Hudgs. As Parks tenacly tri to learn all she n about Roy, she learns jt as much about herself. Delvg ep to ias of sexualy, inty, otherns, and love, <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Diary of a Misf</em></a> is a mt-read.</p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em><strong>Didn’t Nobody Give a Sh What Happened to Carlotta</strong></em> <strong>by Jam Hannaham (Augt 30,</strong> <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><strong>Ltle, Brown</strong></a><strong>)</strong></div><div data-ttid="ProductEmbedWrapper" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd ProductEmbedWrapper-dbbBkO hGAxXn eOBUm product-embed product-embed--image-left" data-em="{"dangeroHed":"Didn’t Nobody Give a Sh What Happened to Carlotta by Jam Hannaham","brand":{"name":""},"id":"628d2ae6a2c3d5a768effbd1","offers":[{"offerUrl":"26","currency":"USD","purchaseUri":"]}"><a tabx="-1" aria-hidn="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="external-lk BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ProductEmbedImageLk-dHxNy iUEiRd hSmufO kvPWzs bgZAlB" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ProductEmbedImage-cIdULW iluLcW rponsive-image"><img alt="Image may nta: Advertisement, Poster, Human, Person, Brochure, Paper, and Flyer" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w" siz="100vw"/></picture></span></a><div class="ProductEmbedContent-kztPgY MfQJV product-embed__ntent"><div class="ProductEmbedHedWrapper-eVzhMb kcVySP"><div id="628d2ae6a2c3d5a768effbd1" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ProductEmbedHed-kvwLfM iUEiRd jsgzTv fCVfVZ">Didn’t Nobody Give a Sh What Happened to Carlotta by Jam Hannaham</div></div><div class="ProductOfferListWrapper-bqpHEj cvoxld product-offer-list ProductEmbedCTA-iEJcDb gjXEJL product-embed__cta"><div class="ProductOfferWrapper-dpcYKd hBwhMM product-offer-list__offer product-offer"><div class="ProductOfferCtaBlock-bduvOV fbJiRZ product-offer__cta-block" id="button_label_$26atBookshop"><a href=" rel="sponsored noopener" target="_blank" aria-scribedby="628d2ae6a2c3d5a768effbd1" aria-label="$26 at Bookshop" data-buy-button="te" data-offer-retailer="Bookshop" data-offer-url=" class="BaseButton-bLlsy ButtonWrapper-xCepQ gJNxgH dBEvYj button button--primary-pair product-offer__buy-button" data-event-click="{"element":"Button","outgogURL":"" data-ttid="Button" type=""><span class="ButtonLabel-cjAuJN hzwRuG button__label"><span>$26</span> at Bookshop</span></a></div></div></div></div></div><p>Jam Hannaham, a prolific wrer and artist om New York, has wrten the PEN/Flkner Award-wng novel <em>Delic Foods</em> (2015) and the Lambda Lerary Award wner <em>God Says No</em> (2009), among many other works of fictn, nonfictn, photography, and performance. Wh this new novel, Hannaham brgs the rear along on an epic Fourth of July weekend shortly after Carlotta, a trans Ao-Latx woman, is released on parole after spendg s a men’s prison for her volvement a robbery gone wrong. Over the urse of the holiday, she navigat a different New York Cy than she remembers, explorg plex relatnships wh fay and iends while alg wh the relentls jtice of the prison system. <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><em>Didn’t Nobody Give a Sh What Happened to Carlotta</em></a> expertly balanc the serns of the crimal legal system wh the irreverence, absurdy, humor, and healg nnectns of Carlotta’s world.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p><em><strong>Get the bt of what’s queer.</strong></em> <a href=">Sign up for <em>Them</em>’s weekly newsletter here.</a></p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot 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