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  • Published: 15 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781641291354
  • Imprint: Soho Teen
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $19.99

All of Us with Wings




Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl.

Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl.

Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame.

But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe—not the family Xochi’s chosen, nor the one she left behind.

  • Published: 15 September 2020
  • ISBN: 9781641291354
  • Imprint: Soho Teen
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $19.99

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Praise for All of Us with Wings

A Barnes & Noble Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Book of 2019 A Paste Best Young Adult Book of June 2019 A Book Riot Most Anticipated LGBTQ Read of 2019 A Book Riot Must-Read Debut Book of 2019 A She Reads Best YA Book of 2019  Praise for All of Us With Wings “Keil’s ambitious debut is jam-packed with twists and depth and froth and function . . . [this is] a book about embracing everything—people, lifestyles, beliefs, experiences—and, in so doing, finding your own distinct power.” The New York Times Book Review “Michelle Ruiz Keil’s strange but original premise gives fresh perspective to the ways pain and rage can manifest themselves as toxic elements that threaten a person’s well-being and endanger those around them.” —NBC News “In her debut novel, Michelle Ruiz Keil crafts a fantastical ode to the Golden City’s postpunk era.” —Entertainment Weekly  “A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. 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. Keil is a new voice to keep an eye on.”  —Zoraida Córdova, award-winning author of Labyrinth Lost  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. 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 “I'm convinced that Michelle Ruiz Keil has woven a magic spell into these pages. All of Us with Wings is gorgeous, gritty, and utterly transfixing.”   —Sara Holland, New York Times bestselling author of Everless “Michelle Ruiz Keil puts exquisite language and wild imagination to the fierce onslaught of sensation and doubt that is adolescence. This is a story for young adults, but perhaps it is also a deeply poetic tale of what is lost in the transition to adulthood.”  —Joanna Rose, author of Little Miss Strange “An irresistible punk rock spirit . . . sets it apart from standard fantasy fare.” —Popsugar “A sort of goth Weetzie Bat, but even that doesn’t quite capture [its] beauty . . . The prose is gorgeous and lyrical and positively glitters, and the characters are vivid and lush. I loved this book.” —Book RiotAll of Us with Wings is the coming-of-age story for those of us whose adolescence didn't fit the script . . . Told in luminous prose, this novel achieves an intoxicating blend of fairytale and realism that quickly proves addictive.” —Lit Reactor “Put me under a happy spell.” —OPB's State of Wonder “Bursting with magic.”  —Audio File “The writing soars . . . This tale of found family and recovery weaves an unforgettable punk rock-infused spell.”   Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “[An] atmospheric debut . . . Keil plays