How It Works Out* Shortlisted for the 2025 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award ** Shortlisted for the 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award ** Longlisted for the 2024 Story Prize ** Audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring. GEORGE SAUNDERS Madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good. KELLY LINK A delightfully bizarre and unabashedly queer revelation. TEGAN and SARA QUIN A beautifully brilliant, hilariously sad stunner of a debut that never forgets about the heart. NANA KWAME

spanning Lamya’s childhood to her arrival in the United States for college through early-adult life in New York City

self-acceptance

and the women who love women who are surviving the ways and world of men

Everyone except for the prickly

she’d read everything she could find on infertility

she warns about the traps of ‘representation

Why do they think their opinion is so important

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kehrer Verlag

oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies

Machado picked up his own camera in 1990

How could identity be archived in a design canon that has consistently erased contributions by designers who were not white

Maurice reacts by retreating to the safety of childhood obsessions