{"product_id":"milk-blood-heat-9781838950606","title":"Milk Blood Heat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e''A seething excavation of want and human error'' Raven Leilani, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLuster\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Glorious, ecstatic, devastating... A gorgeous debut from a wickedly talented new author''\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLauren Groff, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFlorida\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Sultry, dark, thick with the heat of bodies and minds in sin and transgression. Incredible''\u003cbr\u003eJamel Brinkley, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA Lucky Man\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in the suburbs and the cities of the modern world but about the ancient essences of who and what we are, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMilk Blood Heat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a collection of love and sex, birth and death. Through the stories of ordinary characters confronted by extraordinary moments of violent yet often beautiful reckoning, Dantiel W. Moniz contemplates human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Wise and subversive, spiritual and seductive, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMilk Blood Heat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e showcases that the world in which we live can be a place of obstacles and heartbreak... but also one of grace and splendour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA Roxane Gay Bookclub Pick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42789272453326,"sku":"9781838950606","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781838950606_a.png?v=1740043663","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/milk-blood-heat-9781838950606","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}