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Smh also -hosts a podst wh fellow poet extraordaire Franny Choi <style data-emotn="css 5z6rvi">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}{lor:#B20B16;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="lled VS." class="body-lk css-5z6rvi et3p2gv0"><u>lled VS.</u></a>, and if you are need of a perfect blend of ep existential art and hilar gam for your ears this holiday season, look no further.</p><h2 data-no-id="5" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>My Autobgraphy of Carson McCullers</em> by Jenn Shapland</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="6" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-ed18d6bb-c08c-4d92-9689-1a9361937d66" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">My Autobgraphy of Carson McCullers: A Memoir</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$21 at Bookshop for My Autobgraphy of Carson McCullers: A Memoir" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$21 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="T Hoe Books" data-vars-ga-product-id="ed18d6bb-c08c-4d92-9689-1a9361937d66" data-vars-ga-product-price="$21.34" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="7e62ef42-c107-4c38-97a2-8283c4140bb7" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="T Hoe Books" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Authors" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781947793286" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="My Autobgraphy of Carson McCullers: A Memoir" tle="My Autobgraphy of Carson McCullers: A Memoir" src="" width="777" height="1200" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">My Autobgraphy of Carson McCullers: A Memoir</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$21 at Bookshop for My Autobgraphy of Carson McCullers: A Memoir" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$21 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="T Hoe Books" data-vars-ga-product-id="ed18d6bb-c08c-4d92-9689-1a9361937d66" data-vars-ga-product-price="$21.34" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="7e62ef42-c107-4c38-97a2-8283c4140bb7" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="T Hoe Books" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Authors" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781947793286" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$21 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: T Hoe Books</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="7" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">This poignant nonfictn/memoir taptry was shortlisted for the Natnal Book Award, and wh good reason. Jenn Shapland prob the archiv — broadly fed — of midcentury Amerin novelist Carson McCullers. What she fds letters, therapy transcripts (!), and the bathtub of Carson’s childhood home driv a betiful narrative about obssivens, queer longg, art, and self-examatn. 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He’s the <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="olt nerd on Twter" class="body-lk css-5z6rvi et3p2gv0"><u>olt nerd on Twter</u></a>, and he also wrote one of the bt but novels recent memory. <em>Real Life</em> follows Wallace, a Black queer PhD stunt a midwtern llege town where all of his iends and most of his lleagu are whe. The book tak place over the urse of a sgle weekend, durg which an timate enunter wh one of his iends stirs up a lot of ternal and external drama and reckong for Wallace — and leav the rear spng. 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In her sophomore poetry llectn (after 2012’s <em>When My Brother Was an Aztec</em>), Diaz wr about the polics, sire, ecstasy, and landspe of bodi leral and metaphoril. This one was also shortlisted for the Natnal Book Award this year, and s stunng, life-givg poems make obv why.</p><h2 data-no-id="17" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>dayliGht </em>by Roya Marsh</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="18" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-9742fb08-21af-4eed-bcc4-3c83870b3bee" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">DayliGht: Poems</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$14 at Bookshop for DayliGht: Poems" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$14 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="MCD X Fsg Origals" data-vars-ga-product-id="9742fb08-21af-4eed-bcc4-3c83870b3bee" data-vars-ga-product-price="$13.95" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="ab4bfa4a-c625-4811-a718-5d26b0f4b5fc" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="MCD X Fsg Origals" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Poetry" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780374538897" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="DayliGht: Poems" tle="DayliGht: Poems" src="" width="1000" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">DayliGht: Poems</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$14 at Bookshop for DayliGht: Poems" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$14 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="MCD X Fsg Origals" data-vars-ga-product-id="9742fb08-21af-4eed-bcc4-3c83870b3bee" data-vars-ga-product-price="$13.95" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="ab4bfa4a-c625-4811-a718-5d26b0f4b5fc" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="MCD X Fsg Origals" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Poetry" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780374538897" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$14 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: MCD X Fsg Origals</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="19" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Speakg of geo, life-givg poems, Roya Marsh’s but llectn flew a ltle unr the radar this year but serv to be picked up. The troductn tablish Marsh’s amework of love and nnectn the importance of reprentatn of Black queer butch women. She go on to liver one stunner after another, full of reverence and grief for her muny. This one is not to be missed.</p><h2 data-no-id="20" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>Wow, No Thank You</em> by Samantha Irby</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="21" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-fb95f139-67c9-4e83-8482-86e4db68dbc6" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Wow, No Thank You.</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$15 at Bookshop for Wow, No Thank You." data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$15 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Rearlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="fb95f139-67c9-4e83-8482-86e4db68dbc6" data-vars-ga-product-price="$14.83" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="fac08490-5bc2-444e-bbf8-93f71011a3" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Rearlk" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Cricism & Theory" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780525563488" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="Wow, No Thank You." tle="Wow, No Thank You." src="" width="648" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Wow, No Thank You.</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$15 at Bookshop for Wow, No Thank You." data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$15 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Rearlk" data-vars-ga-product-id="fb95f139-67c9-4e83-8482-86e4db68dbc6" data-vars-ga-product-price="$14.83" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="fac08490-5bc2-444e-bbf8-93f71011a3" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Rearlk" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Cricism & Theory" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780525563488" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$15 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: Rearlk</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="22" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">If you’re lookg to pee yourself lghg, <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Samantha Irby" class="body-lk css-5z6rvi et3p2gv0">Samantha Irby</a> has always been a good bet. This latt say llectn, her third after <em>Meaty</em> and <em>We Are Never Meetg Real Life</em>, might be her funnit yet. Wrg about Instagram wellns gus, eatg out (remember that?) wh Crohn’s disease, awkward social suatns (remember social suatns?), and livg the ral midwt as a Black queer femme wh her partner and partner’s kids. Irby’s wrg is hilar, to be sure, but ’s also cisive and smart. </p><h2 data-no-id="23" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>All Boys Aren’t Blue</em> by Gee M. Johnson</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="24" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-272ecf96-5f8c-4cc3-a04c-2314adf84f11" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifto</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$18 at Bookshop for All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifto" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$18 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="272ecf96-5f8c-4cc3-a04c-2314adf84f11" data-vars-ga-product-price="$17.66" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="f5739aee-2c70-4d06-85e1-afc78fea3665" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Social Scienc" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780374312718" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifto" tle="All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifto" src="" width="1613" height="2475" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifto</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$18 at Bookshop for All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifto" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$18 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="272ecf96-5f8c-4cc3-a04c-2314adf84f11" data-vars-ga-product-price="$17.66" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="f5739aee-2c70-4d06-85e1-afc78fea3665" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Social Scienc" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780374312718" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$18 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: Farrar, Strs and Giroux</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="25" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Gee M. Johnson" class="body-lk css-5z6rvi et3p2gv0">Gee M. Johnson</a> is an in, largely bee of this tensely betiful book. It’s classified as a YA memoir, and is mostly about Johnson’s youth g of age as a Black queer nonbary person New Jersey and Virgia. They wre so clearly and affectgly about masculy, toxic and otherwise, fay, genr, and Black joy. This is a perfect read for someone of any age, genr inty, sexualy, or other inty markers who is terted plex stori of love and rilience.</p><h2 data-no-id="26" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>Vanishg Monuments</em> by John Elizabeth Sttzi</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="27" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-c88a6f6a-9440-4bc6-a285-77d97f3273be" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Vanishg Monuments </h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$17 at Bookshop for Vanishg Monuments " data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$17 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="c88a6f6a-9440-4bc6-a285-77d97f3273be" data-vars-ga-product-price="$16.69" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="63d35965-e795-4378-b1fe-eae727ec327f" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Horror" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781551528014" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="Vanishg Monuments " tle="Vanishg Monuments " src="" width="750" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Vanishg Monuments </h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$17 at Bookshop for Vanishg Monuments " data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$17 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="c88a6f6a-9440-4bc6-a285-77d97f3273be" data-vars-ga-product-price="$16.69" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="63d35965-e795-4378-b1fe-eae727ec327f" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Horror" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781551528014" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$17 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: Arsenal Pulp Prs</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="28" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">John Elizabeth Sttzi released two books this year wh a month of each other (their poetry llectn, <em>Junebat</em>, is also well worth pickg up). Both were buts, which is even more imprsive. In this novel, middle-aged nonbary photographer Alani returns to their childhood home ral Wnipeg for the first time sce leavg wh their girliend at age 17. Their mother’s mentia is worseng, to the pot where she don’t speak. This is a powerful story about grief, reckong, relatnships, and what mak human.</p><h2 data-no-id="29" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>Boys of Alabama</em> by Genevieve Hudson</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="30" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-da6eab58-3899-4930-812b-dcd7b0573b" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Boys of Alabama</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$25 at Bookshop for Boys of Alabama" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$25 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Liveright Publishg Corporatn" data-vars-ga-product-id="da6eab58-3899-4930-812b-dcd7b0573b" data-vars-ga-product-price="$25.06" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="48b9d22f-e2ee-4717-9e3d-dcf1d7094058" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Liveright Publishg Corporatn" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Comg of Age" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781631496295" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="Boys of Alabama" tle="Boys of Alabama" src="" width="663" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Boys of Alabama</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$25 at Bookshop for Boys of Alabama" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$25 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Liveright Publishg Corporatn" data-vars-ga-product-id="da6eab58-3899-4930-812b-dcd7b0573b" data-vars-ga-product-price="$25.06" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="48b9d22f-e2ee-4717-9e3d-dcf1d7094058" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Liveright Publishg Corporatn" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Comg of Age" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781631496295" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$25 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: Liveright Publishg Corporatn</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="31" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">This is Genevieve Hudson’s but novel, but their wrg is all over the place, cludg their 2018 short story llectn <em>Pretend We Live Here</em> and l mags om <em>McSweeney’s</em> to <em>T Hoe</em> (RIP). Their fictn has a lh, celtial qualy that feels like magic, and <em>Boys of Alabama</em> do fact nta some magic. Followg queer German teen Max after he mov to Alabama for his father’s r manufacturg job, the story unfolds around relign (the Christian kd and the football kd), ath, heat, poison, rnfields, sex, and blood. If sounds like a spell, kd of is.</p><h2 data-no-id="32" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>The Undocumented Amerins</em> by Karla Cornejo Villavicenc</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="33" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-c588ee71-ddc8-4b2f-ba93-9da94d97c8c5" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">The Undocumented Amerins</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$24 at Bookshop for The Undocumented Amerins" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$24 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="One World" data-vars-ga-product-id="c588ee71-ddc8-4b2f-ba93-9da94d97c8c5" data-vars-ga-product-price="$24.18" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="459a6aef-a05e-4d7d-8f09-d8550be760c3" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="One World" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Hispanic & Lat" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780399592683" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="The Undocumented Amerins" tle="The Undocumented Amerins" src="" width="662" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">The Undocumented Amerins</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$24 at Bookshop for The Undocumented Amerins" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$24 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="One World" data-vars-ga-product-id="c588ee71-ddc8-4b2f-ba93-9da94d97c8c5" data-vars-ga-product-price="$24.18" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="459a6aef-a05e-4d7d-8f09-d8550be760c3" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="One World" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Hispanic & Lat" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780399592683" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$24 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: One World</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="34" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Another shortlister for the Natnal Book Award, this explosn of a masterpiece is required readg for every person, pecially every Amerin. Villavicenc pulls no punch wh this brilliant work of nonfictn, which she tells the most human of stori – that is, the msy one. In too many narrativ around immigratn, the people lumped to labels of “immigrant” or “undocumented” are flattened to the pot of erasure. Through terviews and personal story, Villavicenc not only crafts a narrative opposn to this flatteng, but the procs ftly illtrat the lack of humany the Amerin empire. There’s also humor here, and her readg of the dbook is one of the bt listeng experienc you’ll fd.</p><h2 data-no-id="35" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>Fairt</em> by Meredh Talan</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="36" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-ed2905d3-63ef-4b37-9ebb-ba189fbe8e12" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Fairt: A Memoir</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$25 at Bookshop for Fairt: A Memoir" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$25 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Vikg" data-vars-ga-product-id="ed2905d3-63ef-4b37-9ebb-ba189fbe8e12" data-vars-ga-product-price="$24.84" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="659f10b3-b6db-410f-ac44-f27371c20c99" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Vikg" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Asian Amerin & Asian" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780525561309" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="Fairt: A Memoir" tle="Fairt: A Memoir" src="" width="662" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Fairt: A Memoir</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$25 at Bookshop for Fairt: A Memoir" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$25 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Vikg" data-vars-ga-product-id="ed2905d3-63ef-4b37-9ebb-ba189fbe8e12" data-vars-ga-product-price="$24.84" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="659f10b3-b6db-410f-ac44-f27371c20c99" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Vikg" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Asian Amerin & Asian" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780525561309" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$25 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: Vikg</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="37" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0"><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Meredh Talan" class="body-lk css-5z6rvi et3p2gv0">Meredh Talan</a> grew up the Philipp, where she lived wh her grandmother, to whom she was very close. She was also a child star on televisn. An amic scholarship to Harvard and her albism facilated a proximy to whens that spurred a reckong wh race, class, genr and sexual inty, and privilege that she explor eply this memoir. The book also explor her genr transn and relatnships wh people and wh ias, cludg the ia of sirabily. </p><h2 data-no-id="38" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>Pizza Girl</em> by Jean Kyoung Frazier</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="39" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-66596d5a-f17f-411d-a548-2a665897c661" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Pizza Girl</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$23 at Bookshop for Pizza Girl" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$23 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Doubleday" data-vars-ga-product-id="66596d5a-f17f-411d-a548-2a665897c661" data-vars-ga-product-price="$23.20" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="64836e27-8ab4-4d3e-9645-6d0571d0f163" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Doubleday" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Computers & Inter" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780385545723" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="Pizza Girl" tle="Pizza Girl" src="" width="662" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Pizza Girl</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$23 at Bookshop for Pizza Girl" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$23 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Doubleday" data-vars-ga-product-id="66596d5a-f17f-411d-a548-2a665897c661" data-vars-ga-product-price="$23.20" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="64836e27-8ab4-4d3e-9645-6d0571d0f163" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Doubleday" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Computers & Inter" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780385545723" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$23 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: Doubleday Books</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="40" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">In <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Kyoung Frazier's" class="body-lk css-5z6rvi et3p2gv0">Kyoung Frazier's</a> short, punchy, atmospheric novel, the unnamed narrator is an 18-year-old young woman who is pregnant, livg wh her boyiend her mother’s hoe, grievg her recently ceased father, and y, workg as a pizza livery girl LA. When a woman lls one night sperate for pickle pizza to feed her young son, the narrator soon be obssed wh her, a fixatn that crts a dramatic, strange, totally engrossg way. This book is a league of s own, funny and eply movg, and has one of the olt vers of any book recent memory.</p><h2 data-no-id="41" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>A History of My Brief Body</em> by Billy-Ray Belurt</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="42" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-03301a71-26c8-43-86f8-638905b2a964" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">A History of My Brief Body</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$15 at Bookshop for A History of My Brief Body" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$15 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="03301a71-26c8-43-86f8-638905b2a964" data-vars-ga-product-price="$14.87" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="d9ff3120-c604-4242-bfe5-7d91e5c1c777" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Cricism & Theory" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781937512934" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="A History of My Brief Body" tle="A History of My Brief Body" src="" width="713" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">A History of My Brief Body</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$15 at Bookshop for A History of My Brief Body" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$15 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="03301a71-26c8-43-86f8-638905b2a964" data-vars-ga-product-price="$14.87" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="d9ff3120-c604-4242-bfe5-7d91e5c1c777" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Cricism & Theory" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781937512934" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$15 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: Two Dollar Rad</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="43" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Billy-Ray Belurt is a poet and one of the world’s greatt mds, and his first llectn of says is only further proof of this. This book is short but nse; every sentence is so powerful will stop you your tracks. Tacklg queerns and lonial imagatn, Belurt brgs his unique poetic style to prose here, but the genre labels are pretty els to scribe his wrg. Jt read , you’ll see.</p><h2 data-no-id="44" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>The Death of Vivek Oji </em>by Akwaeke Emezi</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="45" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-67dcf249-eb61-4f5b-bf4d-c864b92fa70e" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">The Death of Vivek Oji</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$25 at Bookshop for The Death of Vivek Oji" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$25 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Riverhead Books" data-vars-ga-product-id="67dcf249-eb61-4f5b-bf4d-c864b92fa70e" data-vars-ga-product-price="$24.84" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="99bae20d-b48c-485b-b9ce-cd0b2b8e5fb6" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Riverhead Books" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Comg of Age" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780525541608" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="The Death of Vivek Oji" tle="The Death of Vivek Oji" src="" width="800" height="1201" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">The Death of Vivek Oji</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$25 at Bookshop for The Death of Vivek Oji" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$25 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="Riverhead Books" data-vars-ga-product-id="67dcf249-eb61-4f5b-bf4d-c864b92fa70e" data-vars-ga-product-price="$24.84" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="99bae20d-b48c-485b-b9ce-cd0b2b8e5fb6" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-brand="Riverhead Books" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Comg of Age" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780525541608" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$25 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: Riverhead Books</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="46" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Another of our greatt livg wrers, Akwaeke Emezi is back wh another adult novel to follow up 2018’s <em>Frhwater</em> and 2019’s YA novel <em>Pet</em>. This one opens wh the body of genr-nonnformg teen Vivek Oji lyg outsi his parents’ home Nigeria, and proceeds to unfold the story of his, his fay’s, and his muny’s life that led to this vastatg ath. This is a story of chosen fay, disvery, love, pa, grief, and how lonialism fects dividuals and natns. </p><h2 data-no-id="47" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>The Selected Work of Audre Lor</em> eded by Roxanne Gay</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="48" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-e87a25ac-2eaf-423b-9191-772924b9" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">The Selected Works of Audre Lor </h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$16 at Bookshop for The Selected Works of Audre Lor " data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$16 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="W. 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Norton & Company" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Essays" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781324004615" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="The Selected Works of Audre Lor " tle="The Selected Works of Audre Lor " src="" width="663" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">The Selected Works of Audre Lor </h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$16 at Bookshop for The Selected Works of Audre Lor " data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$16 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="W. 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Here, another ccial figure lerary and social jtice spac, Roxane Gay, llects some of Lor’s many says and poems to a new anthology and troduc them as only she n: wh reverence, cisivens, and lumo prose.</p><h2 data-no-id="50" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>Ace: What Asexualy Reveals About Dire, Society, and the Meang of Sex</em> by Angela Chen</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="51" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-d5dcd141-b9c2-4f22-9d1f-a500bf9dd1d6" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Ace: What Asexualy Reveals about Dire, Society, and the Meang of Sex</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$25 at Bookshop for Ace: What Asexualy Reveals about Dire, Society, and the Meang of Sex" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$25 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="d5dcd141-b9c2-4f22-9d1f-a500bf9dd1d6" data-vars-ga-product-price="$25.06" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="751735bd-1cfa-4698-a9ff-9e4f44996d58" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Social Scienc" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780807013793" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="Ace: What Asexualy Reveals about Dire, Society, and the Meang of Sex" tle="Ace: What Asexualy Reveals about Dire, Society, and the Meang of Sex" src="" width="667" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Ace: What Asexualy Reveals about Dire, Society, and the Meang of Sex</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$25 at Bookshop for Ace: What Asexualy Reveals about Dire, Society, and the Meang of Sex" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$25 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="d5dcd141-b9c2-4f22-9d1f-a500bf9dd1d6" data-vars-ga-product-price="$25.06" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="751735bd-1cfa-4698-a9ff-9e4f44996d58" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Social Scienc" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9780807013793" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$25 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: Bean Prs</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="52" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Fally, a book about asexualy that’s not clil or purely amic! In this extremely wele nonfictn/memoir hybrid, Angela Chen brgs together her personal experience, extensive terviews, and ep rearch to the asexual experience to a book that should be read by everyone, no matter their sexualy. She troduc ncepts like wtern society’s pulsory masculy, the ia of queer platonic relatnships, and a primer on the vast possibily of asexualy, which is too often amed as a lack or disorr.</p><h2 data-no-id="53" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>Love After the End</em> eded by Joshua Whehead</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="54" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-71751e3e-7c7c-46f9-96ee-74445db76956" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spir and Indigiqueer Speculative Fictn</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$18 at Bookshop for Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spir and Indigiqueer Speculative Fictn" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$18 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="71751e3e-7c7c-46f9-96ee-74445db76956" data-vars-ga-product-price="$17.62" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="8c2d7b2f-dc29-4938-963c-be3e4c63001d" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Cricism & Theory" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781551528113" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spir and Indigiqueer Speculative Fictn" tle="Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spir and Indigiqueer Speculative Fictn" src="" width="667" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spir and Indigiqueer Speculative Fictn</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$18 at Bookshop for Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spir and Indigiqueer Speculative Fictn" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$18 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="71751e3e-7c7c-46f9-96ee-74445db76956" data-vars-ga-product-price="$17.62" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="8c2d7b2f-dc29-4938-963c-be3e4c63001d" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Cricism & Theory" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781551528113" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$18 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: Arsenal Pulp Prs</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="55" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Joshua Whehead’s 2018 novel <em>Jonny Appleed</em>, about a young Two-Spir Indigiqueer protagonist who navigat fay, sex work, and love was one of the bt books to e out that year. Whehead has now eded an anthology of queer, trans, and Two-Spir Indigeno speculative fictn both utopian and dystopian. It brgs together so many fantastic thors and geo piec of wrg.</p><h2 data-no-id="56" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>Btiary</em> by K-Mg Chang</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="57" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-d46e00-beec-425f-9e9d-fd40bbb68860" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Btiary</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$25 at Bookshop for Btiary" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$25 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-brand="One World" data-vars-ga-product-id="d46e00-beec-425f-9e9d-fd40bbb68860" 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et3p2gv0"> but novel</a> about a young Taiwane Amerin girl and the hered vlence and rilience of the three generatns of women her fay, and also about queer love, is perhaps bt scrib as “visceral.” Chang is not aaid to go there when to all the betiful, animalistic, and very gross aspects of the human body, so maybe don’t eat while you’re readg this, but the story will stay your bon forever.</p><h2 data-no-id="59" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>Pla Bad Hero</em> by ey m. danforth</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="60" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-4be89102-d24c-4d19-b648-1f5e849ea3bc" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10"> Pla Bad Hero: A Novel</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$26 at Bookshop for Pla 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This is a gothic romp of a gay book. There are multiple parallel storyl different time perds, a hnted abandoned girls school, a myster lbian book, Hollywood, lots of be, and secrets abound. Also, almost every character is queer. This is a long one but mov quickly and is a lot of fun.</p><h2 data-no-id="62" class="body-h2 css-1n96kgk et3p2gv0"><em>Butter Honey Pig Bread</em> by Franc Ekwuyasi</h2><div data-ad-exclu="(m-width: 90rem)" data-embed="embed-product" data-no-id="63" size="large" class="size-large align-center embed css-10i4pzn etrqhn80"><div id="product-3b19c906-ac46-4cbf-8996-95b7fa2980db" class="css-17pp2fn etrqhn81"></div><div size="large" class="size-large align-center css-60ezry eyaokey4"><div class="top css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Butter Honey Pig Bread</h2></div><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$19 at Bookshop for Butter Honey Pig Bread" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$19 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-role data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="3b19c906-ac46-4cbf-8996-95b7fa2980db" data-vars-ga-product-price="$18.55" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="280c318c-acf2-46d9-8d4a-c858d91ce1" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Horror" data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781551528236" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" class="product-image-lk eyaokey0 en6kra60 css-15xslai e1c1bym14"><div class="css-zjhp4x e729n7u1"><div data-optimizely="product-image-ntaer" class="css-1pc0key e729n7u0"><img srcSet=" 640w, 980w" alt="Butter Honey Pig Bread" tle="Butter Honey Pig Bread" src="" width="750" height="1000" dg="async" loadg="lazy" /></div></div></a><div size="large" class="css-j8dpzi eyaokey1"><div class="css-1f1nsoy eyaokey2"><h2 class="css-7c0ern e8seki10">Butter Honey Pig Bread</h2></div><div size="large" class="size-large css-12bdcfv e1a1omje0"><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href=" aria-label="$19 at Bookshop for Butter Honey Pig Bread" data-href=" data-product-url=" data-affiliate="te" data-affiliate-url=" data-affiliate-work="{}" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="$19 at Bookshop" data-vars-ga-media-type="Sgle Product Embed" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-product-id="3b19c906-ac46-4cbf-8996-95b7fa2980db" data-vars-ga-product-price="$18.55" data-vars-ga-product-retailer-id="280c318c-acf2-46d9-8d4a-c858d91ce1" data-vars-ga-product-sem3-tegory="Horror" data-vars-ga-gallery-id data-vars-ga-lk-treatment="(not set) | (not set)" data-vars-ga-sku="bookshop_9781551528236" data-vars-ga-magento-trackg="1" role="button" data-ab-label="ProdClick" class="product-btn-lk en6kra60 css-woa7ea e1c1bym14">$19 at Bookshop</a></div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Cred: Arsenal Pulp Prs</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="64" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">This radiant but novel om multidisciplary artist Franc Ekwuyasi follows a mother and her tw dghters om Lagos, Nigeria, to Europe, Canada, and back aga, as their stori diverge and nverge across time. 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In this memoir-of-sorts, her first sce her 2018 novel <em>Sketchstasy</em>, Symore navigat gentrifyg ci ( this se maly Seattle), explorg the ias of nnectn, longg, queer dreams, and palism. 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