The Believers

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A. K.'s wondrous and shattering debut collection </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>imbues people on the periphery with power hardly visible to outsiders</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> -where no one conforms to type. In the title story to leave a seemingly friendly and supportive church a family must risk everything. In The Iridescent Blue-Black Boy with Wings (After Márquez) children find a winged boy in a seaside village in Tobago. In Ready for the Revolution? uncertain lovers play rough with identity politics and are set on an unexpected path. In Drink the Dew love and wrath become one while the young woman in Inside navigates a complicated business arrangement with her lover. In Love a scandalous affair produces a love child born with a dark omen while in Exile a pregnant teen from a staunchly religious family is exiled to have her baby in secret. A gardener in Love Story No. 8 falls for a rich man's daughter to disastrous ends. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Believers</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is at once poignant and subversive utterly haunting and unforgettable.</span></p><p></p>