Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music, All of Us with Wings left me breathless.' -Ruth Ozeki, Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of A Tale for the Time Being 'Michelle Ruiz Keil creates a vivid and original novel full of music, rage, and characters that sing with purpose. This gorgeous debut looks unflinchingly into often unexplored experiences of adolescence-abuse and addiction, lust and desire, found families and chosen homes-finding beauty and redemption even in the darkest places.' -Tehlor Kay Mejia, author of We Set the Dark on Fire, A Barnes & Noble Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Book of 2019 A Book Riot Most Anticipated LGBTQ Read of 2019 A Book Riot Must-Read Debut Book of 2019 Praise for All of Us With Wings 'A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. In equal parts realistic detail and surreal vision, All of Us with Wings bursts off the page and goes with you into real life.' -Anna-Marie McLemore, author of Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours and Blanca & Roja ' All of Us with Wings is a decadent slice of post-punk rockstardom that will have you begging to stay at the party till sunrise. Praise for All of Us With Wings 'A love letter to live music, a poem to a city in novel form, and a poignantly nuanced examination of the ways in which performance impacts life on and off stage. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

Seventeen-year-old Xochi is on her own in San Francisco, running from a painful past.

Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore