#skye falling

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Queer Fiction Free-for-All Book Bracket Tournament: Round 1A

Choose a book:

Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie

Voting ended onFeb 15, 2025

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Endorsement from submitter: "Sweeping epic play. 100% excellent read even if you can't get to a performance."

The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect.

Play, classics, AIDS crisis, adult

Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie

Twenty-six and broke, Skye didn't think twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash. Now approaching forty, Skye moves through life entirely—and unrepentantly—on her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships. Her personal life might be a mess, and no one would be surprised if she died alone in a hotel room, but at least she's free to do as she pleases. But then a twelve-year-old girl shows up during one of Skye's brief visits to her hometown of Philadelphia, and tells Skye that she's "her egg." Skye's life is thrown into sharp relief and she decides that it might be time to actually try to have a meaningful relationship with another human being. Spoiler alert: It's not easy. Things gets even more complicated when Skye realizes that the woman she tried and failed to pick up the other day is the girl's aunt and now it's awkward. All the while, her brother is trying to get in touch, her problematic mother is being bewilderingly kind, and the West Philly pool halls and hoagie shops of her youth have been replaced by hipster cafes. Told in a fresh, lively voice, this novel is a relentlessly clever, deeply moving portrait of a woman and the relationships she thought she could live without.

Contemporary, adult

[nakedinashes]

books cristina read in 2021: skye falling - mia mckenzie

“It was my first time abroad. I was twenty-one and I’d decided beforehand that I would come out there, in this new, exciting place where no one knew me, where my gayness wouldn’t have to compete with whatever ideas anyone already held about my sexuality because no one held any at all. There, I could be queer from the start, and I was.”

[aroaessidhe]

2022 reads // twitter thread

Skye Falling

adult contemporary novel about a 38yo Black queer woman who owns a travel company

she donated her eggs 12 years ago, which she hasn't thought about until a girl claiming to be her egg-donor kid approaches her & forces her away from her solo, commitment-averse life

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Simone Martin-Newberry’s illustrated book cover for Mia McKenzie’s Skye Falling.

[the-liliger]

Review and Spoiler - #6

Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie

Skye Falling is a novel about a woman named Skye, who starts out feeling scared she’ll die alone but is too stubborn to change her routine. Until one unsuspecting day, a young girl made of Skye's donated eggs finds her. The past tries to prevent her from finding happiness in a new family, but she finds her home in the end.

I really enjoyed this book, because of the well-written character development Skye undergoes, the queer romance, and the heart-warming, humorous family they create in the resolution. I’d recommend the book to mature teenagers and older, believing they would appreciate it equally or more than I did. It contains many elements for everyone, queer love, racial justice, family, getting over traumas, and such.

(LGBTQIA+ 🏳‍🌈)

Spoiler: "You know the good thing about hitting rock bottom, there's only one way left to go and that's up!" - Buster Moon Sing

[wrenchilla]

Hey, I read this book last week and it rocks btw

This is the first novel by Mia McKenzie I’ve ever read, and let me tell you I was in no way disappointed. The main character, Skye, is so damn honest and relatable (and super gay). I’m just completely obsessed with McKenzie’s writing style and wit; seriously it’s not often that a book makes me laugh out loud, but this one did on multiple occasions. Of course, the story’s also amazing. It’s well-paced, endearing, and relevant (and GAY). McKenzie seriously doesn’t pull any punches. Obviously I am just a silly little teen on tumblr who’s in no way an authority on what is or isn’t great literature, but it has my gay-black-girl stamp of approval nonetheless. Also I just really want to talk about this book with someone so please read it and then dm me!!

[bigtickhk]

Life Gets Hectic Fast for a Heroine and Her Newfound 12-Year-Old

The title character of Mia McKenzie’s novel “Skye Falling” wants to avoid chaos and human connection. Too bad for her.

Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie https://amzn.to/2SYJ8PB

https://bookshop.org/a/17891/9781984801609

[ashleighannhayhoa]

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Loving all of the books set in Philly I’ve been reading recently!