Glenda's Staff Picks

Dark, creepy, and unsettling–not just in a supernatural way. Model Home follows Ezri, a queer, neurodivergent parent who travels back to the US following the mysterious death of their parents. The novel is an unflinching meditation of the various horrors that manifest inside and outside of the home they grew up in. Check content warnings!

Told from the perspective of a queer lion navigating the hills of ellay who slyly observes and encounters humanity, this is written like a long, beautiful prose poem. Clever, playful, and existential all at once–you could read this in an afternoon.