All of Us with Wings

Name: All of Us with Wings
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Michelle Ruiz Keil
ISBN: 9781980029786

Author: Michelle Ruiz Keil

Narrator: Maria Liatis

Unabridged: 10 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/18/2019

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Magical Realism, Performing Arts, Diversity & Multicultural

Synopsis

Michelle Ruiz Keil's #OwnVoices debut is a literary YA fantasy about love, found family, and healing-an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican American girl. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is on her own in San Francisco, running from a painful past. On a visit to Golden Gate Park, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old with a rockstar family that lives in one of the city's storybook Victorian mansions. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas's live-in governess and quickly becomes part of the band's household, fascinated by their free-love philosophy and the happy calm that balances out their glamorous music personas. But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a pagan ritual that unintentionally summons a pair of ancient creatures devoted to righting the wrongs of Xochi's adolescence. She'd do anything to preserve her new life, but the nightmares of her past are never far behind: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her, and the loving grandmother whose death left Xochi alone in the world. With the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who've hurt her, no one in Xochi's life is safe-not the family she's chosen, nor the one she left behind.

Reviews

Goodreads review by ari on June 29, 2019

This review is based on an ARC I received from the publishers in exchange for an honest review. EDIT: This book is not pedophilia. Pedophilia is about pre-puberty children, usually to the age of 13. As a survivor of pedophilia myself, and knowing other survivors, calling these sorts of relationships......more

Goodreads review by Jasmine on April 26, 2019

I started reading All of Us with Wings on 4/23/2019 and finished it on 4/26/2019. This book is an okay read for me. I picked this book up purely on the cover because it’s cute but the story is more weird than I can handle. There are drugs and mentioned of sex, rape, and tattoos going on in this stor......more

Goodreads review by Grace on December 18, 2018

Finishing this book felt like waking up from a strange, miraculous dream. This is a such beautifully crafted story of found families, music, and unexpected, inevitable magic.......more

Goodreads review by Celia on February 28, 2019

Once in a while, a book comes along that completely blows my mind. This is one of those books. Thank you to Edelweiss and the publisher for allowing me to review this book ahead of its release date. What is it about, you ask? Our 17-year old protagonist is named Xochi. She's a governess to a 12-year......more

Goodreads review by Debbie on February 02, 2019

There was a lot to like about this novel, and I imagine it will appeal to its target audience, especially as it is written under the #ownvoices rubric, and features diverse characters. It is a well-written and at times suspenseful urban fantasy with many interesting and sympathetic characters. It po......more