![]() Needless to say, neither one makes a very good impression on the other. It’s hardly the stuff of a meet-cute – it’s raining outside, Mina can’t quite place who he is and he thinks she purposely bumped into him so that she could find a way to meet him. And so, the book begins with film buff Samina (Mina to her friends) running into indie film star Emmitt Ramos on her way home from school. I adored her debut, Counting Down with You (you can read my review here), and this book, while dealing with topics that seem a bit heavier than the previous book, is also delightful and romantic.Īs Tashie explains in her author’s note at the end of the book, the book’s premise is inspired by something in her own life – when she was in high school, the actor Tom Holland, went undercover as a student in her high school to prepare for his role in Spider-Man. ![]() I don’t read a whole lot of YA but Tashia Bhuiyan’s voice really speaks to me and she is quickly becoming an auto-read author for me. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One day, against Jalil’s wishes, Mariam descends the hill into Herat for the very first time in order to see him. Jalil comes to visit Mariam every week, and though Nana tries to convince Mariam that Jalil is embarrassed by her and refuses to consider her a true member of his family, to Mariam, he can do no wrong. ![]() Mariam is taught to recite verses from the Koran by Mullah Faizullah, whom she looks up to and admires. We learn that Mariam is the illegitimate child or harami (“bastard”) of Nana and Jalil, a wealthy cinema owner in Herat. Part I of A Thousand Splendid Suns begins in the early 1970s, when Mariam is a teenager living with her mother, Nana, in a kolba or small hut outside of the city of Herat. ![]() ![]() Thompson-Spires fearlessly shines a light on the simmering tensions and precariousness of black citizenship. In the title story, when a cosplayer, dressed as his favorite anime character, is mistaken for a violent threat the consequences are dire in another story, a teen struggles between her upper middle class upbringing and her desire to fully connect with so-called black culture. Some are darkly humorous-two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids’ backpacks-while others are devastatingly poignant. ![]() Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with race, identity politics, and the contemporary middle class in this “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive” (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection.Įach captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of utterly original characters. ![]() In one of the season’s most acclaimed works of fiction-longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the PEN Open Book Award-Nafissa Thompson-Spires offers “a firecracker of a book.a triumph of storytelling: intelligent, acerbic, and ingenious” ( Financial Times). Included in Best Books of 2018 Lists from Refinery29, NPR, The Root, HuffPost, Vanity Fair, Bustle, Chicago Tribune, PopSugar, and The Undefeated. * Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize* ![]() *Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize* ![]() ![]() But as conspiracies unfold, secrets are revealed and the body count rises within the collegium walls, Mia will be forced to choose between her loyalties and her revenge. ![]() Upon the sands of the arena, Mia finds new allies, bitter rivals, and more questions about her strange affinity for the shadows. ![]() When it is announced that Consul Scaeva and Cardinal Duomo will be making a rare public appearance at the conclusion of the grand games in Godsgrave, Mia defies the Church and sells herself into slavery for a chance to fulfill the promise she made on the day she lost everything. But after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy, Mia begins to suspect the motives of the Red Church itself. ![]() Her position is precarious, and she’s still no closer to exacting revenge for the brutal death of her family. Mia Corvere, destroyer of empires, has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church ministry do not believe she has earned it. This book title, Godsgrave (Book Two of the Nevernight Chronicle), ISBN: 9781250073037, by Jay Kristoff, published by St. ![]() WINNER OF THE THE AUREALIS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL A ruthless young assassin continues her journey for revenge in this new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm amazed that the QKS audience didn't dwindle and disappear when I ended the show. I feel held by those in my life who are in my circles, on my team, and in my community. But I feel so much stronger this time-around. It's still something I'm unraveling.Īs I prep for book launch, I'm bracing myself for another wave of hate aimed my way. I haven't spoken about this publicly, but last year my therapist diagnosed me with PTSD due to the years of online harassment I've faced. The online harassment was overwhelming and horrific and I had little to no support or resources to deal with it at the time. I made the hard decision to end the webseries in 2019 because I simply couldn't take it anymore. The last seven years have been far from easy. I've written and consulted for mainstream pre-k TV, I've sold and written two WHOLE-ASS books, I've performed across the country at hundreds of schools, libraries, and orgs, I've met and worked with incredible people in my field many of whom I got to admire before calling friend.īut I'm not going to sugarcoat it. The last seven years have been an absolute ride and I owe it all to QKS. ![]() ![]() ![]() I made QKS because it's what I wished I'd had when I was a confused queer and trans kid navigating a cisheteronormative world. Wowie today marks Queer Kid Stuff's SEVENTH birthday! I almost can't believe it. ![]() |