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BOOKS INCLUDED
You May Feel a Bit of Pressure by Amy Gallo Ryan
You May Feel a Bit of Pressure: Observations from Infertility's Heart-Wrenching Ride tells the maddening, mysterious story of one woman's unexplained infertility through a spectrum of emotions that will be familiar to each of the millions of women fighting their way to motherhood. From Hope to Shame, Courage to Grief, Disappointment to Dread to Uncertainty, this book, with unflinching honesty, explores the many painful, palpable human truths at the heart of a most common experience we've only scratched the surface of understanding.
If & When We Wake by Francis Daulerio
What happens when you pair a poet and a thriving singer-songwriter together? You get the marriage of intellect, artistry and a damn good book in your hands."If & When We Wake" is the product of winters and springs. It has been buried under snowpack, thawed, cultivated, scorched by the sun, and buried yet again. The result is a book of poetry and art that shines light on the desperation, helplessness, and loss that everyone feels, and tries to find the beauty of acceptance and growth. It examines the necessity of finding meaning in life after experiencing death. This collection is an attempt to crack back through the ice and rip out a life that emits a light and a heat. It is the woods. It is the grass poking up between toes and tiny bits of soil underneath fingernails. It is alive, and it will sprout and grow.
Who Killed Buster Sparkle? by John W. Bateman
A 2020 Nominee of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, John W. Bateman's Who Killed Buster Sparkle? is more than a must-read....it's a must-be in the modern canon of literature. When a drag queen named Peaches meets Buster, a Mississippi ghost with partial amnesia, questions of past, present, and future surface. Buster attempts to reckon with who he was and is in the presence of Peaches, whose gender-fluid identity perplexes him. Although he doesn't want to associate with Peaches, Buster realizes that he must push aside his biases to avoid eternal loneliness. Who Killed Buster Sparkle? threads together dialogue on race, gender, orientation, and economics, showing oppression exists in many forms. Bateman masters the comic and gothic through two characters who need each other more than they understand.