I arrived back in Portland on March 7th and by the next week, it was a whole different world. I was alone for like 21 hours a day for 18 days-something I've never done before. When all this started, I had just gotten home from a writing residency at Hedgebrook. Also, we're lucky to have enough space and to have already been used to working from home. Along with being an award-winning poet, she is an expert cat-herder and has us happily doing stuff I've tried to institute for years to no avail, like a regular weekly cleaning spree and trading off cooking. We all love her and it's really good to have another person around to shake up our house and help us find new ways of doing things. This is the longest stint we've done of living collectively with my bestie and it's been great. I live with my partner of 30 years, my twenty-one-year-old daughter, and my best friend who splits her time between Portland and the Bay Area but who is with us for the duration of the pandemic. Who do you live with and how do you feel about that? I do occasional speaking and teaching gigs related to my writing but my partner is the primary source of income in our family. 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 she’s chosen, nor the one she left behind.Aside from your creative work do you have any additional source of income? Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in their household, which is relaxed and happy despite the band’s larger-than-life fame.īut on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas accidentally summon a pair of ancient creatures devoted to avenging the wrongs of Xochi’s adolescence.
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.
All of Us with Wings – Michelle Ruiz Keil
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