In Amy Ewing’s wildly original fantasy novel The Cerulean, out today, Sera lives among the Cerulean people in the City Above the Sky. Sera is a curious, questioning girl who doesn’t fit into their Sapphic world order. She’s chosen as the sacrifice needed to break the bond between her aerial home and the planet it’s tethered […]
There are so many measures of a book’s success, but one everyone’s familiar with is landing a coveted spot on the New York Times bestseller list. It’s one of the biggest objective achievements out there, and for those who haven’t hit it (yet), it can feel like publishing’s most exclusive club. To that end, I asked […]
Confession: I’d never read The Handmaid’s Tale before this weekend, when I picked it up and read it for this article. I knew it was a dystopia, I knew there was a TV series coming to Hulu based on it, and I knew it was written by the great Margaret Atwood. Finally I binged it and loved […]