Two Terrific Books
In which I gush about two books I read and enjoyed recently.
Dahlia Adler's Home Field Advantage is a female quarterback and female cheerleader story, where they fall in love, and also maybe save the football team's record. It doesn't shy away from the harassment and the crap that a female quarterback would face. Or the weird balance of things when you have been working so hard to just survive high school in a more conservative small town, and have even created a decoy relationship, and now, the person you really really want means blowing all of that up.
Nghi Vo's Siren Queen is 1930's Hollywood if the studios were run by literal monsters, not just figurative ones, and the Chinese American girl who wants to be in movies on as close to her own terms as she can get. Vo's ability to take a story and add monsters and make it feel absolutely normal and correct astounds me.