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Venita Blackburn: Dead in Long Beach, California (Hardcover, 2024, MCD) 5 stars

Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay’s dead body in the wake …

Bad cover, great book

5 stars

A wholly original way of exploring grief that wasn’t depressing. Coral is a lesbian author who finds her brother dead by suicide, and begins responding to texts on his phone as him. Intercut with excerpts from her own dystopian novel and flashbacks from their family’s lives, this was hard to follow at times but always beautifully written. One of those I-love-how-your-mind-works authors, I-could-never.