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We Deserve Monuments
Author: Jas Hammonds
Release Date: November 29th, 2022
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This high school story of inter-generational trauma and coming of age hit me right where it hurt. It’s messy as hell, but so are real people!
(Cue eyebrow raise.) Part mystery and romance, this book is the ultimate page-turner.
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I liked this book more than Delilah Green, mostly because Iris’ love interest was fun to learn about. LiquidAuthor: Mariam Rahmani
Release Date: March 11th, 2025
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I am Liquid‘s biggest defender.
Then, when returns home to mom duties in the Dallas suburbs, she finds herself fixating on the wild child she used to be and fantasizing about turns her life could take. It’s deeply sad and should not be read by anyone whose mental health would suffer from reading about suicide, because that’s pretty much what the entire book is about.
In Homebodies, Mickey finds herself returning to the place that raised her when she’s replaced at her media job and attempts to shine light on the challenges Black women face in the workplace, but is ultimately ignored. I will note that this could be extremely triggering for those with an eating disorder, as the main plot is that Rose Winters becomes increasingly anorexic until she is ultimately institutionalized.
This romance was fun, and I loved all of the side characters as well!
As someone who also hates my hometown (albeit for much less traumatic reasons) I appreciated the built in redemption arc for both Delilah and her home of Bright Falls.
Author: Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
Release Date: April 5th, 2022
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If you want a gay, dual perspective, enemies to friends to lovers story written by a real life couple, this is the book for you!
She doesn't expect to find five sealed envelopes from her mother, each addressed to a mysterious man she's never heard of.
Rahmani’s novel is not a love story in the conventional sense, it’s a literary fiction novel of a Muslim academic who’s struggling to get by and to find herself in the world. Rainbow Rainbow
Author: Lydia Conklin
Release Date: May 1st, 2022
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I am genuinely obsessed with this queer short story collection.
The desert environment is described in stunning detail as Zoë discovers gender identity through both its harshness and beauty. To be honest, she’s not that good at raising him.