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Every now and then I read a book that expands my on perceptions of the world and those who dwell within it. A book that cuts through the distracting stress and division of life in the 2020s to awaken my curiosity and empathy. Joe Okonkwo's short story collection Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck was one of those books.
All too often social media forces us into dehumanising political categories, turning real, living, multifaceted people into simplistic caricatures. Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck captures all our glory, ugliness, and complexity through its beautifully interwoven stories, some of which follow characters across vast spans of their lives. Their situations can be heartbreaking, their characters flawed, and their relationships fractured, but the narrative always presents them in a manner that's compelling and it does so without judgment.
Independent Publishers Awards (IPPY) Silver Medalist in LGBT+ Fiction
The eclectic stories in this collection are bound by the threads of desire in its many forms, above all, the desire for love and a place of safety in a world where being Black and gay can thwart the fulfillment of that longing. The characters are complex, driven, difficult, and even, at times, unsympathetic, but always compelling. In other words: fully rounded human beings living complicated lives.
A proud Black woman who escaped her rural, impoverished town returns after the collapse of her marriage and faces the scorn of those she…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
It's not often a character's voice sticks with you for months after finishing a book. Sometimes a voice stays with you because of its warmth and compassion. Sometimes because it's a voice that echoes your own. And sometimes it's because that voice is so wonderfully twisted that it haunts you long afterward.
The narrator of Whether Violent or Natural is the latter.
Kit endures the apocalypse in a bunker beneath a crumbling castle. Clearly traumatised by the chaos she's lived through, her disturbingly childlike tone lures you in – but don't be deceived. There's a difference between fragility and innocence, and Natasha Calder truly redefines the concept of the unreliable narrator with this work. Utterly transfixing.
In a world devastated by antimicrobial resistance, two survivors are thrown into crisis when a woman washes ashore on the remote island where they live
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Years after complete antibiotic resistance has resulted in the loss of most human life on earth, Kit and Crevan eke out an existence on a remote island. Under a collapsing castle, they spend their days in an underground bunker packed with emergency stores, venturing out only at night. They are safe.
One evening a woman washes ashore, nearly drowned. Crevan…
