Queer Fiction Blog: June 2021 bpl.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bpl.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New York Times-bestselling novel,
Love, Hate and Other Filters (Soho Teen, 2019). The book explores the life of an Indian-American Muslim as she battles Islamophobia and cultural divides. Her other works include
Internment (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019) and
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know (Soho Teen, 2020).
Internment revolves around the life of a Muslim teen who is forced into an internment camp for Muslim Americans and decides to rebel. Narrated in dual timelines,
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know traces the lives of two women striving to chase their passion while escaping family burdens.
Canadian author Uzma Jalaluddin s debut novel,
Ayesha At Last (Berkley Books, 2019), is loosely based on the plot of Jane Austen s
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Speculative fiction is uniquely equipped to tell stories about grief. With science fiction there’s a whole arsenal of clones, robots, and time travel that can allow mourners to confront their lost loved ones. In fantasy it’s easy to blur the lines between life and death and visit the dead. And obviously horror’s whole deal, from
Frankenstein to ghost stories to zombie apocalypses, is about what happens when we confront death.
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But before I talk about the three elements in
WandaVision that I think are truly interesting, I’d like to revisit a few of my favorite SFFH works that tackle loss and grief.
Portraying Grief in SFF: From Beloved to WandaVision tor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Francesca Ekwuyasi’s
Butter Honey Pig Bread is the story of a fractured family: twins Taiye and Kehinde, who grew distant after a traumatic incident, and their troubled, dreamy mother Kambirinachi. Taiye, a queer chef living in Halifax, distracts herself with sex and partying to avoid confronting her guilt over the “bad thing” that happened to her sister. Kehinde, in Montreal, blossoms as an artist, falls in love and marries. After years of separation, both sisters return home to Lagos, reunited with their mother.
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