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Fave Five: Queer Literary Fiction about Grief and Mourning

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi Some Hell by Patrick Nathan Broughtupsy by Christina Cooke Bonus: Coming next month, Model Home by Rivers Solomon

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Most Anticipated Queer Adult Fiction: January-June 2024

Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban (January 9th) Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth’s skin crawl and she’d rather be anywhere but here. Gwen, on the other hand, is on her fourth season and…

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Happy Caribbean American Heritage Month

Happy Caribbean American Heritage Month! We’re celebrating as we do, with queer Caribbean fiction! Middle Grade Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender Being born during a hurricane is considered unlucky where twelve-year-old Caroline Murphy lives, and she has had her share of bad luck lately. She’s hated and bullied by everyone in her small school on St. Thomas of the US Virgin Islands. A spirit only…

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New Releases: January 2024

The Curse of Eelgrass Bog by Mary Averling (2nd) Nothing about Kess Pedrock’s life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family’s Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for megafauna fossils and skeletons), and not her best friend (a talking demon’s head in a jar named Shrunken Jim). But things get even stranger than usual when Kess meets Lilou Starling, the new girl in town.…

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Broughtupsy: A Novel

By Christina Cooke.

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This resplendence of cloth and dress must, however, be underpinned by an armature of breeding, good manners and respect, else one becomes a ‘ garawa ofi fo ’ – an empty barrel, all noise and no use. The futility of beauty without meaning is often highlighted, and among the Yoruba, beauty has to be ‘mindful’, must be functional, however minimally. As the proverbs go, ‘ iwa l’ewa ’ (one’s character is one’s beauty), and ‘ iwa rere l’eso eniyan ’ (a good character is the best attire). Another common saying in Yorubaland is ‘ Aso la nri ki, ki a to ki eniyan ’ (it is the cloth we should greet before greeting the wearer). This saying illustrates that in some contexts it is the history and antecedents imbued in the cloth that one accords respect to – not just the person. The cloth/textile in these circumstances therefore evokes a multi-faceted, culturally significant and positively evaluated type of meaning that the beholder instantly experiences in a way that transcends literal sensibilities and comprehension.

Eni Bankole-Race - Aso iyi, aso eye: Resplendence and the Yoruba prestige textile aso-oke (2018)

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