![]() ![]() Each story is rendered in brilliant prose, which adds remarkable depth and imagery to narratives about thirteen year-old girls obsessed with their own mortality, a young woman plunged into the depths of despair by a miscarriage, girls facing rejection from religious households, a young woman pondering pregnancy, a woman on a road trip to scatter her father’s ashes with her distant brother, and so on. ![]() The stories mostly center around black women and girls living in the Jacksonville area, and many stories integrate the three title images of milk, blood, and heat, in visceral narratives about love, friendship, and loss. Moniz’s debut story collection Milk Blood Heat is the rare debut the strikes a perfect note with every story, all of which coalesce to an elemental and stunning symphony. ![]()
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