Your Love is Not Good Binding:Hardcover Poet and musician Melania Luisa

Poet and musician Melania Luisa Marte opens PLAINTAINS AND OUR BECOMING by pointing out that Afro-Latina is not a word recognized by the dictionary

A debut poetry collection wrangling the various selves we hold and perform—across oceans and within relationships—told through a queer

The Scarlet Letter

" illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade

From the porch of his home

Your Love is Not Good Binding:Hardcover Poet and musician Melania LuisaLonglisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize Kirkus Reviews, "Best Fiction of 2023" An artist of color becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamor of Clarice Lispector and the viscerality of Han Kang. At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the room: gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the center of everyone's attention. Haunted into