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BUST Details Published: 11 May 2021 If, like me, you ve spent the past 14 months finding comfort in feel-good YA, you have a lot to be excited about this spring. Some of your soon-to-be favorite additions to your bookshelf are out now or out very, very soon. And the best part is, we re seeing all kinds of diverse, all-too-relatable heroes, heroines, and love stories, often paired with fresh takes on the genre s best tropes. (Fake dating fans, you ll definitely want to head to your local bookstore ASAP.) Read on for eight of our favorite new and upcoming releases. ADVERTISEMENT Out now, Inkyard Press ....
This week on Code Switch, we ve been talking about the joys and complexities of Black romance. On the podcast, we delved in historical Black romance with authors who write about Black love during slavery, Reconstruction, the roaring 20s, the civil rights movement. But with Valentine s Day upon us, we didn t want to leave out Black romance that takes place in the here and now. Author Leah Johnson. So we called up Leah Johnson, author of You Should See Me In A Crown. The young adult novel follows Liz Lighty, a high schooler who has always felt too Black, too poor, and too awkward for her rich, mostly white, midwestern town. When Liz s financial aid falls through, she decides her only option is to run for prom queen in order to win the scholarship she needs to afford her dream college. Romantic antics ensue. The book dives into the struggles of growing up Black and queer in a place where that s not the norm, but manages to still celebrate ....
I wanted to put a queer Black girl from small-town Indiana on the page and tell her that happy endings are within her grasp. I needed to write that story in order to believe it for myself, because I’d so rarely seen it play out that way before in real life or in the media I consumed. It pushed me to come out, to name my queerness, to live more openly. Writing my book saved my life. In a world that does so much to deny so many of us the clear-cut paths to our happy endings, I refuse to accept that being a fan of romance should qualify as a tasteless guilty pleasure. ....
Adiba Jaigirdar was born in Bangladesh and moved to Dublin when she was 10. The 26-year-old, who considers herself Bangladeshi and Irish, has been here ever since. Her debut novel draws on her ....
Adiba Jaigirdar was born in Bangladesh and moved to Dublin when she was 10. The 26-year-old, who considers herself Bangladeshi and Irish, has been here ever since. Her debut novel draws on her ....