“Michelle Ruiz Keil creates a vivid and original novel full of music, rage, and characters that sing with purpose.

Ruth Ozeki, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of A Tale for the Time Being “A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music, All of Us with Wings left me breathless.” “In her debut novel, Michelle Ruiz Keil crafts a fantastical ode to the Golden City’s postpunk era.” “Michelle Ruiz Keil’s strange but original premise gives fresh perspective to the ways pain and rage can manifest themselves as toxic elements that threaten a person’s well-being and endanger those around them.” And what better literary backdrop exists, for themes of family rent so theatrically and disastrously asunder, than Shakespeare itself?”

“In the vein of many poignant teen fictions these days, Ruiz Keil has chosen to focus with compassion on a difficult reality for young people: that sometimes their parents will make incredibly damaging choices and that, in the wake of those damaging choices, everyone will be left to decide if and how they move on. a book about embracing everything-people, lifestyles, beliefs, experiences-and, in so doing, finding your own distinct power.” “Keil’s ambitious debut is jam-packed with twists and depth and froth and function. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe-not the family Xochi’s chosen, nor the one she left behind.Ī Barnes & Noble Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Book of 2019Ī Paste Best Young Adult Book of June 2019Ī Book Riot Most Anticipated LGBTQ Read of 2019 Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame.īut on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl.

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