![]() ![]() ReviewĪll of us with wings is a masterfully crafted story that explores themes of love in all of its forms from the complex guilt-ridden love, we still hold for those who have betrayed or abandoned us to the love and hopes we hold for the children in our lives, to self-love gained from sexual pleasure and the experience of caring for others and losing someone you love. She would do anything to preserve her new life, but with the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who’ve hurt her, no one is safe - not the family Xochi’s chosen, nor the one she left behind. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in the girl’s tight-knit household, which operates on a free-love philosophy and easy warmth despite the band’s growing fame.īut on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual in good fun, accidentally summoning a pair of ancient beings bound to avenge the wrongs of Xochi’s past. ![]() ![]() Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rockstar family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Michelle Ruiz Keil’s YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. ![]()
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