" All of Us with Wings is a decadent slice of post-punk rockstardom that will have you begging to stay at the party till sunrise.
Zoraida Córdova, award-winning author of Labyrinth Lost "Michelle Ruiz Keil creates a vivid and original novel full of music, rage, and characters that sing with purpose. Ruth Ozeki, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of A Tale for the Time Being Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music, All of Us with Wings left me breathless." "A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. "In her debut novel, Michelle Ruiz Keil crafts a fantastical ode to the Golden City's postpunk era." "Michelle Ruiz Keil's strange but original premise gives fresh perspective to the ways pain and rage can manifest themselves as toxic elements that threaten a person's well-being and endanger those around them." a book about embracing everything-people, lifestyles, beliefs, experiences-and, in so doing, finding your own distinct power."
"Keil's ambitious debut is jam-packed with twists and depth and froth and function. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who've hurt her, no one is safe-not the family Xochi's chosen, nor the one she left behind.Ī Barnes & Noble Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Book of 2019Ī Paste Best Young Adult Book of June 2019Ī Book Riot Most Anticipated LGBTQ Read of 2019 Xochi accepts a position as Pallas's live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl's tight-knit household, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band's growing fame.īut on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi's past.
Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city's storybook Victorians. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Description Michelle Ruiz Keil's YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl.
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