![]() – Jenny Heijun Wills, award-winning author of Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related The result is a sparkling but devastating novel about corporate and state cruelty, individual as well as community sacrifice, and queer Black and Brown kinship that must be protected at all costs. This multilayered story captivates as Hernandez alternates between pressing firmly on readers’ exoskeletal fragilities and lightly stroking the places where empathy lives. “In Crosshairs, Catherine Hernandez shapes a world at once fantastical and familiar, remarkable and relatable. – Carrianne Leung, award-winning author of That Time I Loved You Crosshairs offers a glance into a world that is possible if we continue on a trajectory that is frightfully present. Most importantly, Crosshairs asks us what we will do to resist and build a better future when faced with such momentous and dangerous times” One can describe it as dystopic fiction, but Catherine Hernandez is presenting us with something much more prescient to consider. The novel acts as a provocation and a challenge for readers to locate themselves. – Cherie Dimaline, bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves and Empire of Wild I love this book, this big, bright missive that not only breaks the ground, but that gifts us with the steps to take in order to get to the other side, together.” ![]() But it is also a perfectly crafted portrait of us now, of us then, of the us we hope to be. ![]() This story is a masterpiece of voice and metaphor, image and embodiment. I dare you not to cry or scream or marvel or, like me, do all at once while reading this book. – Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of The Illegal and The Book of Negroes Crosshairs salon full#At the same time, she inspires the reader with her depiction of a resistance full of characters who - even in the face of hatred and complacency - show love, pride, endurance, courage and who insist on living to the very last breath.” Catherine Hernandez prophesies Canadian genocide against queer, Black, brown and Indigenous folks. Still, I could not put down this dystopia. A cautionary tale filled with fierce and vibrant characters, Crosshairs explores the universal desire to thrive, to love and to be loved as your true self.Īmerican Pre-orders Praise for Crosshairs ![]() With her signature prose, described by Booklist as “raw yet beautiful, disturbing yet hopeful,” Catherine Hernandez creates a vision of the future that is all the more terrifying because it is very possible. Guiding them in the use of weapons and close-quarters combat is Beck, a rogue army officer who helps them plan an uprising at a major internationally televised event. After his livelihood and the love of his life are taken away, Kay joins the resistance alongside Bahadur, a transmasculine refugee, and Firuzeh, a headstrong social worker. In a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods that lead to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called the Boots seizes the opportunity to force communities of colour, the disabled and the LGBTQ+ into labour camps in the city of Toronto. An unforgettable and timely dystopian story of a near-future, where Others and allies join forces against an oppressive regime ![]()
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