I really enjoyed the many aspects it tackled, growing up queer, relationships with mothers, migration, poverty and so on and I find a lot of the lines really stuck with me and I think about them often. I don't need it to contain these themes but I'd like something with multitudes and quite emotional and thought provoking.
by Dry_Vermicelli1926
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Beautiful Country by Julie Qian Wang is a great memoir that has similar difficulties as On Earth…
You should check out Julia Armfield! Private Rites is about a family, three sisters who are all queer, growing up during the end times. After their dad dies, they reconnect and deal with their trauma. It’s literary fiction.
Our Wives Under the Sea is also really fun sapphic/horror. Really, just try Julia Armfield.
Another good author is Rivers Solomon. They wrote Model Home, which is about an African American family in a haunted house. The MC is genderqueer, and it is classified as horror. To me, it reads a lot more like literary fiction, the ghosts are mostly metaphorical.