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Eight years after their breakup, Kaya Dela Cruz and Theo Vega start receiving voicemails the other doesn’t remember leaving—each one arriving at 12:03 am for the twelve nights before Christmas.
The messages are intimate, aching, full of things they never said. As the boundary between dream and reality blurs, Oakland hums with a strange holiday magic that seems to be pushing them back toward each other.
But some messages are meant to change you, not just find you.
And some love stories only begin when you finally call back.
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In the shadows of the swamp, fairy tales don’t end with happily ever after. They drip with moss and blood, sung by cicadas and haunted by women who came before.
Moss Mother is a spellbinding poetry collection by Maya-Gawonii Shabazz-Saleh that reimagines beloved fairy tales through the lens of Black American Southern Gothic tradition. Here, glass coffins sink in bayous, red hoods wander company towns, and witches speak in the tongues of fireflies. Each poem carries the weight of ancestral memory and the shimmer of myth, weaving together beauty and horror, grief and resurrection.
Both incantatory and elegiac, this collection asks: what happens when the stories we inherit are laced with both danger and salvation? How do we claim survival in a world that calls our magic monstrous?
For readers of Toni Morrison, Natasha Trethewey, and Lucille Clifton, for lovers of folklore, hauntings, and Southern night air, Moss Mother is a book of poems that will rock you like a hymn.
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