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Here is the hate between 16-year-old Junie, who is transitioning, and their mom's boyfriend Chad when the family moves into Chad's house on Lake Erie. And here is the love being tested between Sawyer and his dad, who named his boat after his child and resists changing it from Sara to Sawyer now. There is DiFrancesco's willingness to enter lands that are violent and comfortless in some of these stories, testing the limits of what it means to be human, sometimes returning stronger and wiser and sometimes not returning at all as their characters surge forward into unknown spaces.\u003cbr\u003e DiFrancesco's first novel \u003ci\u003eAll City\u003c\/i\u003e (Seven Stories 2019) was praised by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e as a \"loving, grieving warning that thoughtfully traces the resilience, fragility, and joy of precarious communities in an immediate, compassionate voice.\" \u003ci\u003eAll City\u003c\/i\u003e was one of \u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Best Post-Apocalyptic Books of 2019,\" \u003ci\u003eEntropy Mag\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Best of 2019,\" and \u003ci\u003eLargehearted Boy\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Favorite Novels of 2019.\" It was a finalist for the 2019 Ohioana Book Award for Fiction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49611910906129,"sku":"GOR012787197","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625570083089,"sku":"GOR013235100","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49737637167377,"sku":"NGR9781644210666","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51043076374801,"sku":"NIN9781644210666","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51781058953489,"sku":"CIN1644210665VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1644210665.jpg?v=1751429931"},{"product_id":"breaking-the-curse-book-alex-difrancesco-9781644213841","title":"Breaking the Curse","description":"In Breaking the Curse, Alex DiFrancesco takes their own crushing experiences of assault, addiction, and transphobic violence as the starting point for a journey to self-reclamation. Reeling in the aftermath of a rape that played out as painfully in public as in private, DiFrancesco begins to pursue spirituality in earnest, searching for an ancestral connection to magic as a form of protection and pathway to transformation. Propelled by a knowledge of the spiritual role of the transgender person in society, Alex winds through Cleveland and Brooklyn and Philly - from rehab and pagan AA meetings and friends' spare mattresses to tarot readers and books about Italian witchcraft to daily ritual, prayer, altar-making, and folk tradition. In so doing, they begin to not only piece together a way to heal but also call into existence a life that finally feels worth living. Breaking the Curse weaves spells, blasphemous novenas, and personal memories to imagine a new memoir form. Speaking about trauma does not always take its power away, DiFrancesco reminds us, but one can write their truth so that the hurt no longer fills the whole horizon.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50886599934225,"sku":"NGR9781644213841","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51043091710225,"sku":"NIN9781644213841","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53032874836241,"sku":"CIN1644213842G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53083220705553,"sku":"GOR014734375","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53404709290257,"sku":"GOR014907769","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1644213842.jpg?v=1751246265"},{"product_id":"grief-shop-book-alex-difrancesco-9781644215531","title":"The Grief Shop","description":"The Grief Shop and Other Stories from a Broken World takes place after 'the tragedy' transforms everyone into unfeeling people. 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