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For May, I chose Palaver by Bryan Washington, and I could not be more excited to share it with you all. Set across Houston, Jamaica, and Tokyo, this is a deeply moving story about a mother and son navigating a decade of distance, silence, and the complicated love that survives both. Washington writes with such tenderness and honesty about chosen family, forgiveness, and what it truly means to find home in another person. This one is going to give us so much to talk about, so come read it with us!
A love letter to Los Angeles through the lens of pastel postmodernismPhotographer George Byrne sees what most of us walk right past. He takes the gritty, sprawling cityscape of LA and transforms it into candy-colored dreamscapes that are equal parts David Hockney, Art Deco fantasy, and Instagram mood board. His Post Truth series is proof that beauty is everywhere—you just have to know how to look.What I love about this book is that it challenges the way we see the world. Byrne reassembles photographs of the urban landscape into striking collages of color and geometric fragments, creating postmodernist oases out of what architect Rem Koolhaas once called "junkspace." The result is something that lives in the space between real and imagined—and honey, that is the most fabulous place to be.This vibrantly illustrated catalog showcases more than 60 images and features text by design writer Ian Volner. If you love art, photography, Los Angeles, or simply finding magic in the mundane, this one is for you. As always, for every person that subscribes to my club, a book is donated to LGBTQ+ youth in a state facing book bans.
I am beyond thrilled to bring you this month's book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country, by Molly Crabapple. Not only is this a book I have been searching for years to find, it's a book that the world has desperately needed for the last century and change. The story of the explicitly anti-Zionist Jewish Labor Bund is a story that reconnects us to a lineage of solidarity, working-class power, and the brilliance of socialist organizing. This book is an answer to so many of the questions we face here and now, no matter our country.
Set in a remote Irish village in 1965, Heap Earth Upon It is a slow-burning, atmospheric novel about the O'Leary siblings who arrive in town under mysterious circumstances, desperate for a fresh start. When one sister grows dangerously close to Betty, a wealthy older woman, the lines between devotion and obsession blur in ways that are both tender and unsettling. Chloe Michelle Howarth writes sapphic desire under the weight of Catholic repression with a gothic tension that seeps into your bones. If you loved Sunburn, this sophomore novel goes even deeper.
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