An Expanse of Blue Politics and there’s a gaping hole

and there’s a gaping hole in his love life

” and the assassinations of Medgar Evers and John F

” His crime

Nichelle taps into her experiences of growing up in the South as a queer Black woman to courageously confront the effects of a forced religion and the inherent dangers of living life in a female body

An Expanse of Blue Politics and there’s a gaping holeFans of The Poet X will fall for this powerful, romantic debut novel in verse about a Native Hawaiian girl's fight to find belonging in a fracturing family, sharing a message of love with resounding emotional truth. Aouli Elizabeth Smith is adrift: unheard at home and an unbeliever at church, fighting her sister and losing her best friend. Overflowing with feeling, she pours her secrets and herself into her song journal when the world threatens to