March Reads
1. What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris
Father overdoses, mother sends daughters to spend summer with their grandfather, while she takes care of her mental health. Coming of age ensues.
2. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
Successful Nuyorican brother and sister reckon with the absent presence of their revolutionary mother.
3. The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Perry 🔥
Fungal infection kills, fungal infection heals, and maybe even saves the world? Aliens are responsible.
4. Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James 🔥
600+ page story of how Sogolon becomes the 177 year old moon witch and comes to be a part of a group of misfits on the quest for a boy we knew to be dead one book ago.
5. The Book of Delights by Ross Gay 🔥
Micro essays about delight. That’s all you need to know. Read it. It will help with that funk.
6. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell
About an unlikeable jazzman and the women who find him irresistible. Fave part: when one of the women clocks him in the face with his trumpet.
7. The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Puerto Rican-Mexican dude’s daughter dies from cancer and he takes a job that has him robbing cash from a cartel in Juarez to pay for the medical bills. There are monsters of various kinds and this one was violent. Even for me.
8. How the One Armed Sister Sweeps her House by Cherie Jones
On Baxter Beach in Barbados, women and girls are raped and beaten by violent men who may have also been raped and beaten themselves. The one woman who isn’t raped and beaten, is shot and killed. No thanks.
