Goddess of Filth Poetry_Gift_Guide It’s shitty and unpleasant

It’s shitty and unpleasant

The Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Award-winning author Louis Edwards makes his long-awaited comeback with this epic tale of a New Orleans boy whose very creation is so filled with tension that it bedevils his destiny before he is even born

which Kirkus praised as "compulsively readable

Ziyad investigates what it means to live beyond the limited narratives Black children are given and challenges the irreconcilable binaries that restrict them

We had been told that everything was fine

Goddess of Filth Poetry_Gift_Guide It’s shitty and unpleasant"Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash some power to take us all away from our home to the place of our dreams. But we weren't witches. We were five Chicanas living in San Antonio, Texas, one year out of high school." One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a sance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the