'Reading this is like holding your breath underwater while letting the salt sting your fresh wounds. It's exhilarating and shocking and even healing' Washington Post. A thirteen-year-old girl watches her white best friend totter along the edge of a building roof ; a woman who lost her child in its first trimester finds empathy and horror in the waters of a city aquarium ; a mother protects her teen daughter from a predatory love interest by taking revenge over a very French supper ; and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their dead father's ashes - rediscovering one another and figuring out all the ways that trust can be betrayed and love can be redeemed.
Set in the suburbs and the cities of the modern world but about the ancient essences of who and what we are, Milk Blood Heat is a collection of human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, all told through the stories and lives of ordinary people confronted by extraordinary moments of reckoning. 'These spectacular stories are snapshots of the everyday and extraordinary, moments of haunting and grief, of violence and ecstasy' Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water.