Mona Awad absolutely Mona Awad-ing.

I appreciate the depiction of the alienation Miranda feels towards others caused by her chronic pain which is invisible to everyone else but very real to her.

It rings true to me as someone who struggled with chronic pain for a long time.

A short magical realism novel about a girl, her mother and her step father who’s a human size crane, the bird that is.

Hijinks ensue.

I’m torn on this one. I enjoyed it but it was missing a bit of polish.

I enjoyed the cast of characters being mostly of Canadian Indigenous ancestry (well, except the villain). It’s not something I’ve seen before (which either speaks to my uncultured-ness or the lack of minority voices in the media I’m exposed to… or both).