New gay novels 2022
Young Adult
A Treachery of Swans by A.B. Poranek
Can two girls—one enchanted, one the enchantress—save their kingdom and each other?
Two hundred years ago, a slighted deity stole the magic from Auréal and vanished without a trace. But seventeen-year-old Odile has a plan. All her life, her father, a vengeful sorcerer, has raised her for one unusual task: infiltrate the royal palace and steal the king’s crown, an artefact with enough force to restore magic. But to access the palace, she must assume the identity of a noblewoman. She chooses Marie d’Odette: famed for her beauty, a rumored candidate for future queen…and Odile’s childhood-friend-turned-sworn-enemy.
With her father’s help, Odile transforms Marie into a swan and takes her place at court. But when the king is brutally murdered and her hold brother is accused, her plans are thrown into chaos. Desperate to free her brother, Odile is forced to team up with none other than elegant, infuriating Marie, the girl she has cursed…and the girl she can’t seem to end thinking about despite her best efforts.
To make matters wors
The day after the election, November 6, having spent the previous evening cooking and consuming a strong meal of grass-fed beef and roasted green beans and quinoa as a form of self-care, I sat at the kitchen table eating every free piece of our leftover Halloween treats. KitKats whose wrappers were red as the electoral map. Bags of popcorn labeled, preposterously, Lesser Evil. Coconut-chocolate bars called Unreal.
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And yet, writes Nathan, “if America is dead, our communities survive.” If our national politics has become petite more than farcical theater, our towns and urban area councils and neighborhood
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Shortness and Breadth: LGBTQ Books
Representation on the page matters, and truthful portrayals of the full spectrum of intimate relationships help readers not only to see themselves but also other people with more clarity and understanding. This season brings new and newly translated queer story collections that place their characters in societies coping with climate change, a pandemic, controlling governments, and more. Their authors, whether publishing for the first time or departed decades ago, are part of a literary heritage of lgbtq+ inclusion.
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K-Ming Chang’s debut novel, Bestiary, is a “wild story of a family’s tenuous grasp on belonging in the U.S.,” PW’s review said. In the forthcoming collection Gods of Want (One World, July), Chang zooms out to think about larger collectives, such as mythic traditions and girlhood as a whole. The stories, she says, take inspiration from the unconventional approach to family and queerness in Dorothy Allison’s collection Trash, and Kali Fajardo-Anstine&