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All of Us With Wings

by Michelle Ruiz Keil
All of Us With Wings

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ISBN13: 9781641290340
ISBN10: 164129034X
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All of Us With Wings is a remarkable, refreshing, dangerous book filled with beautiful language. Michelle Ruiz Keil brings the supernatural, the world of art and music, themes of abuse and agency, and characters so real, my heart broke for more than one of them. This was such a satisfying read, I didn’t want it to end, yet it ended where it should. I want more from this author. Recommended By Doug C., Powells.com

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Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl.

Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame.

But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe — not the family Xochi’s chosen, nor the one she left behind.

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"Keil's ambitious debut is jam-packed with twists and depth and froth and function . . . [this is] a book about embracing everything — people, lifestyles, beliefs, experiences — and, in so doing, finding your own distinct power." The New York Times Book Review

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“Michelle Ruiz Keil creates a vivid and original novel full of music, rage, and characters that sing with purpose. Keil is a new voice to keep an eye on.” Zoraida Córdova, award-winning author of Labyrinth Lost

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“A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music, All of Us With Wings left me breathless.” Ruth Ozeki, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of A Tale for the Time Being

About the Author

Michelle Ruiz Keil is a Latinx novelist and playwright. She teaches writing and curates All Kinds of Fur: A Fairytale Reading Series and Salon in Portland, Oregon. She has been a fellow at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and Lit Camp and is a member of Las Musas, a collective of Latinx kidlit authors. Her published short fiction can be found on Cosmonauts Avenue and in the forthcoming anthology Color outside the Lines. All of Us with Wings is her first novel.

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Emily Carrew , April 23, 2020
All of us with wings is a masterfully crafted story that explores themes of love in all of its forms; from the complex guilt-ridden love, we still hold for those who have betrayed or abandoned us to the love and hopes we hold for the children in our lives, to self-love gained from sexual pleasure and the experience of caring for others and losing someone you love. This book shows us the raw gorgeous journey of a young woman healing from violation and abuse, in all of its messiness and beauty. It is a story of finding yourself through finding a place and people who feel like home. Full of luscious prose and characters so real they seem to breathe of dialogue you can almost hear and sentences that melt like chocolate on your tongue this book is impregnated with magic, marinated in dark fairytales and full of deep truths that are painfully necessary. This story is like a great golden onion, layers of other stories, of creation myths and music, of movies and poetry, and the things that make a world feel real and visceral. This book joins a canon of great and important stories, the tales that change you, that feed you that tell you who you are. This is one of the best books in the world today, I hope that you decide to pick it up, open up to its magic, and let the words fill you and rearrange you, the spell will be with you for the rest of your life.

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ISBN:
9781641290340
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
06/18/2019
Publisher:
SOHO PRESS
Pages:
360
Height:
1.30IN
Width:
5.80IN
Age Range:
16 and up
Grade Range:
11 and up
Author:
Michelle Ruiz Keil

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