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I wasn‘t the reader for this and I knew that going in. But I‘m always open to new reading experiences, so I gave it a go after it made the #NYTTop10 list for 2024, as well as the #tob longlist. It‘s an alternate history of present day Mexico City, then Tenochtitlan, full of historical figures like Cortes and Moctezuma. I don‘t know enough about this period to know what was reimagined or not. I was lost most of the time.

I listened to this memoir of transition while wrapping presents. Olympia helped 😼(by clawing all the ribbons and biting the paper!)
This was on my radar and moved it up when it made the #NYTTop10 of 2024. This memoir covers Lucy‘s origin story, her parents, and alternates between past and present, describing her feelings when using photo filter apps. Gender identity is tangled up in all of Santes other identities: writer, partner.