Strong Like You by T. L. Simpson (Signed!) Fantasy She takes her time kissing

She takes her time kissing my neck

to know he was not alone

and ill-fated summer love

two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence

as well as a devastating meditation on the destruction of the natural world for the sake of an industrial future

Strong Like You by T. L. Simpson (Signed!) Fantasy She takes her time kissingTold through Walkers heartbreaking journal entries, writing assignments, and poetry written to his father, this debut YA contemporary tackles toxic masculinity head on, exploring what happens when a sweet hearted, sensitive boy isn't nourished but is instead told those feelings aren't valid for a man to have. An impoverished fifteen year old linebacker grapples with ideas about strength and masculinity after the dope dealing father he idolized goes