Come Home to My Heart possessing her

Come Home to My Heart possessing herA gorgeously writen, quietly devastating, and ultimately hopeful sapphic YA romance about losing home and finding it again in another person. Gloria Forman and Xia Harper go to the same high school in a small South Carolina town, but they couldnt be more different. While Gloria is part of the popular, Christian crowd, Xia sleeps through class, antagonizes anyone who dares talk to her, and buries herself in books that help her pretend shes somewhere

and tells the story of the built environment in modern America

and are more present

And when the sirens stopped wailing and the killers vanished into the heat

the woman who will become his wife

a fifteen-year-old girl tossed a grenade in their midst

even encouraged

“A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s

Ultimately they survived

A Foreign Policy Best Summer Reading Pick

It was clear that India would never be same-the only question was: would the war effort push the country toward or away from independence

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“captivating” and “inspiring