Moniz writes about the hard incongruities of intimacy with great urgency and tenderness.' - Raven Leilani, author of Luster 'This collection is a seething excavation of want and human error.

A gorgeous debut from a wickedly talented new writer.' - Lauren Groff, author of Florida Moniz sings of Florida, girlhood, family, loss, and the glorious, ecstatic, devastating human body in Milk Blood Heat. Publisher: Atlantic Books ISBN: 9781838950606 Number of pages: 208 Weight: 183 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm Edition: Main MEDIA REVIEWS Wise and subversive, spiritual and seductive, Milk Blood Heat showcases that the world in which we live can be a place of obstacles and heartbreak. Moniz contemplates human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Through the stories of ordinary characters confronted by extraordinary moments of violent yet often beautiful reckoning, Dantiel W. Set in the suburbs and the cities of the modern world but about the ancient essences of who and what we are, Milk Blood Heat is a collection of love and sex, birth and death. Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2022.Ī thirteen-year-old girl watches her white best friend totter along the edge of a building roof a woman who lost her child in its first trimester finds empathy and horror in the waters of a city aquarium a mother protects her teen daughter from a predatory love interest by taking revenge over a very French supper and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their dead father's ashes - rediscovering one another and reckoning with all the ways that trust can be betrayed and love can be redeemed.

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