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Milk Blood Heat

byDantiel W. Moniz

Who is this book for? Readers interested in contemporary fiction that explores deep social themes and character-driven narratives.

Topics FamilyIdentitySurvival
MoodReflective
Female protagonist
RomanceMinor Subplot
ViolenceMild
Explicit scenesSuggestive Themes
Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2022. A thirteen-year-old girl watches her white best friend totter along the edge of a building roof; a woman who lost her child in its first trimester finds empathy and horror in the waters of a city aquarium; a mother protects her teen daughter from a predatory love interest by taking revenge over a very French supper; and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their dead father's ashes - rediscovering one another and reckoning with all the ways that trust can be betrayed and love can be redeemed. Set in the suburbs and the cities of the modern world but about the ancient essences of who and what we are, Milk Blood Heat is a collection of love and sex, birth and death. Through the stories of ordinary characters confronted by extraordinary moments of violent yet often beautiful reckoning, Dantiel W. Moniz contemplates human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Wise and subversive, spiritual and seductive, Milk Blood Heat showcases that the world in which we live can be a place of obstacles and heartbreak... but also one of grace and splendour. A Roxane Gay Bookclub Pick

Language

en

Published on

03/03/2022

Pages

202

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781838950606

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