An Expanse of Blue two-spirit Karuna Riazi

Karuna Riazi

once again brings us a tour de force of crime fiction--and an expansive look at Native American life in a shifting world

Mead staff Lisa Crossman and Emily Potter-Ndiaye and the guest curator are also explored in this illustrated volume

Van Sciver's story is bracketed by rich contributions from contemporary Native artists and storytellers with a very different connection to the land that the Bunyan myths often conceal

and social belonging represented a daily lived reality

An Expanse of Blue two-spirit Karuna RiaziA powerful, romantic debut novel in verse about a Native Hawaiian girl's fight to find belonging in a fracturing family, sharing a message of love with resounding emotional truth. Aouli Elizabeth Smith is adrift: unheard at home and an unbeliever at church, fighting her sister and losing her best friend. Overflowing with feeling, she pours her secrets and herself into her song journal when the world threatens to sweep her away. The one place she feels