The Risk It Takes to Bloom : On Life and Liberation - Raquel Willis Pages:384 pages, Includes 4 black-and-white photographsOne of TIME magazine's 2025 WOMEN OF THE YEARWINNER of the LGBTQ+ Nonfiction, 2024 Best Book Awards Born in Augusta, Georgia, to devout Black Catholic parents, Raquel Willis grew up yearning for belonging in a world that offered little language for queerness and transness. Though surrounded by love, she felt isolated adrift between faith, expectation, and a truth she couldn't yet name. At the University of Georgia, she discovered her first glimpses of
she sifts the past to bring existences deemed `marginal' into communion with each other
What a wild-ass and unexpected delight' New York Times bestselling author Scott Lynch`[A] comically cosmic adventure series
from loving
Exposed for the first time to the realities of life for those less privileged than herself
including on large scales
and about battling through the night and always believing that there will be a new dawn
An enthralling
the spirit of discord with whom she is reluctantly wed
`Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage
Please be Authentically You
research skills and how to get inspired and overcome blocks to� learning
Pages suffused with ambient menace also accommodate tenderness' Spectator`An indictment of this moment and a timeless parable about the lengths we go to for love and self-preservation