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SKYE FALLING

Mia McKenzie

In SKYE FALLING, we are introduced to a woman who is suddenly faced with a life-altering moment, a choice to turn away or to learn to embrace the unknown.

Meet Skye who, at twenty-six, hadn't thought twice before selling her eggs and happily pocketing the cash.

Now approaching forty, Skye moves through life entirely--and unrepentantly--on her own terms, living out of a suitcase and avoiding all manner of serious relationships. Her personal life might be a mess, and no one would be surprised if she died alone in a hotel room, but at least she's free to do as she pleases.

But then a twelve-year-old girl shows up during one of Skye's brief visits to her hometown of Philadelphia, and tells Skye that she's "her egg." Skye's life and her perspective of all of it is thrown upside-down and she decides that it might be time to actually try to have a meaningful relationship with another human being - and needless to say, this is especially not easy for her.

And that is only the beginning as things gets even more complicated in this deeply moving portrait of a woman.

Mia McKenzie takes on race, queerness, class, and gender and her exploration of the complexities of family and community, police brutality, protest, and gentrification all figure critically and seamlessly into the plot of SKYE FALLING.

Mia McKenzie is the award-winning author of The Summer We Got Free and the creator of Black Girl Dangerous Media, an independent media and education project that centers queer Black women and girls. She lives on the East Coast with her family.

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Book Published 2021-07-27 by Random House
Book Published 2021-07-27 by Random House

Comments

Mia McKenzie is writer who can move from heartbreak to laughter in a single paragraph, while brilliantly reinventing queer family and friendship and the ways in which we get stuck and unstuck along the way. When I could manage to put this book down, I looked up from its pages to a world charged with new potentials.

I have to admit that I'm in the middle of reading this right now, and I'm annoyed that work and life obligations are keeping me from getting back to it! Skye is an almost-40 queer woman living in Philadelphia. Her already-chaotic life gets even messier when a 12-year-old girl shows up and announces that she's her egg, i.e. the child of the friend Skye sold her eggs to back when she was a broke twentysomething. I'm only three chapters in, and already this feels like one of the truest depictions of modern queer life I've read in a while. Read more...

I can't remember the last time a book made me laugh, cry, and reflect as thoroughly as Skye Falling. Mia McKenzie has written the kind of story I feel I've been searching for, and maybe even gave up on as a possibility, and now, suddenly, it's here. This is a story about family, responsibility, and home. It's a new kind of love story, the best kind, and you'll be turning the pages just as quickly as I did.

Razor-sharp, and outrageously funny, SKYE FALLING is an absolute winner. Mia McKenzie has created a one-in-a-million heroine in Skye Ellison and has crafted an entirely fresh story about love that charms with curmudgeonly wit and a tender heart.

What if your most wounded, immature, rude, self-destructive, and antisocial habits were forgotten when a twelve-year-old walked into your life saying, 'Love me?' This page-turner had me laughing out loud at Skye's acid tongue and thoughts, and yet without abandoning the barbs it unearths - and earns - something like grace. Full of vivid women, each complex and funny as hell, Skye Falling reads like a hot summer jam, and it adds up to a lively, full meal.