Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today’s literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all.Ī livewire debut from Dantiel W. “A gorgeous debut” (Lauren Groff) from Dantiel W. In her meticulous inventory of our failures of care for one another and our fumbling efforts to mend those breaches, she presents a taxonomy of what is mournable, and its converse: what calls us to stay in the world we've made, however painful it may be to inhabit." This is a ferociously alive book about death in all its gradations-the extinctions of intimate worlds constructed between friends and siblings, the puncturing of self-illusion by the swift knife of circumstance, the passing of loved ones into physical and emotional realms where we can't access them. Into this blown-apart space comes Dantiel Moniz's debut collection fully assured and, true to its title, packing heat, profoundly embodied. Lucky or not, the ability to process our many griefs has been atomized. "The anniversary of another pandemic spring prompts reflection the juxtaposition of new buds and sun against a background of mind-breaking loss-in the background, if we're lucky enough to not have experienced it directly.
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