Is This a Cry for Help? by Emily Austin literature fashion It’s the mid-eighties in East

It’s the mid-eighties in East Harlem: a twelve-year-old black boy's murdered body is found by Mathilda "Twin" Johnson

unforgiving environment

they set off a chain reaction neither of them could have anticipated ― one that proves that sometimes

betrayals that will rip your heart out

The cat’s in a flurry

Is This a Cry for Help? by Emily Austin literature fashion It’s the mid-eighties in EastEmily Austin, the bestselling queen of darkly quirky, endearingly flawed heroines (Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus), returns with a luminous new novel following a librarian who comes back to work after a mental breakdown only to confront book banning crusaders in an empowering story of grief, love, and the power of libraries. Darcys life turned out better than she could have ever imagined. She is a librarian at the local branch, while her wife Joy