and affection leads to both an intimate closeness and a profound fear of what happens next

Bestselling author Brittney Cooper is a leading Black feminist voice of our times

Max is just a regular cat in Kittyopolis

and provides a much-needed path to health and wholeness

Somadina Eliza Wheeler and affection leads to bothFrom the National Book Award finalist and author of Pet comes a novel set in a magical West African world, about a teen girl who must save her missing twin while learning to navigate her own terrifying new powers. Somadina and her twin brother, Jayaike, are practically the same person: they finish each other's sentences and make each other whole. When the twins come of age, their magical gifts begin to develop, but while Jayaike's powers enchant,