accused of killing her own father and stepmother

Tiwa doesn’t understand what made Said start ignoring her

In the past as today

Vernice and Annie

the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy's sixteenth birthday unfolds

Bright Dead Things: Poems Music & Photography Books accused of killing her ownFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is disorderly, and marvelous, and ours. A book of bravado and introspection, of feminist swagger and harrowing loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and