Kitten

KittenA magnetic, stirring debut novel about an adrift young woman whose growing fascination with her boyfriends cat ushers her into the possibilities of her own lifebut not without first threatening to unravel it. Katie is far from home and fresh out of college, desperate to skirt adulthoods demands, and all too willing to let her wealthy boyfriend James make decisions for them both. It doesnt help that shes no longer speaking to her mother, who resents

and mental health in a digital age

Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes

often scheduling them at the same restaurant so that if things don’t go well

So Vi creates a masculine alter ego

the grocery store

and civilians

” Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun

and a conviction in her own divine visions

processed sodas instead

learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her

Lachlan thinks she’s just a privileged princess

Opal must decide the cost of her own freedom