When her mom dies of cancer when Michelle is 25, she turns to Korean food as a way to mourn her.
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When her mom dies of cancer when Michelle is 25, she turns to Korean food as a way to mourn her.
At its heart, Detransition Baby is the story of three women: Reese, a trans woman who desperately wants to be a mother and self-sabotages by sleeping with married men; Ames, who was Amy, who detransitioned from living as a trans woman; and Katrina, a Chinese Jewish woman who is pregnant with Ames’s baby.
The Vanishing Half is sure to be a classic in the years to come.
A gorgeous story of a native Hawaiian family, telling a tale of old gods & faith & modernity & survival & the history of Hawai’i & just so much more.
It’s part rom-com, part meditation on family and tradition, and part, well, erotic stories for Punjabi widows.
“In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.”
The entire story was so nuanced in its approach to women and Islam, faith in general, and modern Turkish politics. An important (and super timely) read.
Sana Krasikov's debut novel, The Patriots, is an epic family saga stretching between Brooklyn and Moscow from the turn of the twentieth century to 2008.
Touch or technology? One trends forecaster, Sloane, seems to know the answer....