Cosby (Flatiron)Ĭosby’s latest Southern noir sees a Black sheriff’s homecoming complicated by a grisly school shooting and the subsequent discovery of a serial killer. Rivera’s love letter to passionate girls empathetically centers-without judgment-a protagonist who is often disparaged for her body type and frequent emotional outbursts, resulting in an uplifting interrogation of being oneself and supporting others. Mermaids, a synchronized swimming team, middle schooler Nat must overcome challenges stemming from others’ anti-fat bias, her parents’ disapproval, and her own intense feelings. While trying to achieve her dream of one day joining the L.A.
Barely Floating Lilliam Rivera (Kokila).In Levy’s hands, this ontological mystery is a sensual delight. Along the way, she swims in the Mediterranean, loses herself in crowds, and stumbles into erotic encounters as her sense of self becomes more permeable. While visiting Athens, Greece, Elsa sees someone who looks exactly like her, then proceeds to spot her around town and eventually across Europe into France. Get the kids out to run around and read up.Ī summer haze permeates this beguiling story of a woman and her double. Ignatz Award winner Brown returns with another cultural history told via wry comics, this time taking on the wave of nostalgia for the 1980s, when Reagan-era deregulation opened up marketing to minors, and TV shows scripted to sell ushered in childhood-as-consumerism along with GI Joe and My Little Ponies. The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood Brian “Box” Brown (First Second).
I couldn’t be more excited to see how it plays out. Like most people who spend too much time on Twitter, I know Tingle as the author of such out-there and oft meme-ified queer erotica titles as Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus and Space Raptor Butt Invasion, but his first traditionally published work promises to take a more somber tone: it’s a horror novel set at a gay conversion therapy camp.
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