Local Heavens

Local HeavensA corporate hacker. An elusive billionaire. A society trying to survive the American Nightmare. New York City, 2075. Filipino American Nick Carraway has just moved to the heart of the fractured New Americas, where he's struck by the city's contradictions shining corporate towers casting bleak shadows over the slums of a crumbling middle class. When Nick meets alluring, new money Jay Gatsby, he falls for Gatsby's frank charm and confident aura. But in

"I'm Noenka

Gone with the Wind

The gentrification rapidly taking over her predominantly Black Indianapolis neighborhood

charming uncle

She will take over instead

And it's not the first time something—or someone—has gone missing from the camp

“[A] kind of prose poem…that recalls the memoirs of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish”—New York Times

A powerful

So Rachel runs

both the living and the dead

Sloane's clothes don’t fit right

and indispensable encouragement