44 New LGBTQA+ YA Novels You Need This Spring
Release date: April 5What it's about: Locke's path of lyrical and magical devastation continues through mid-20th-century Europe with their newest YA novel, which follows a Hungarian Jewish girl named Csilla in the aftermath of the post-WWII Soviet takeover of her country and murder of her parents.
Csilla and her aunt, the lone survivors of their family, have plans to escape, but Csilla can't leave the only home she's ever known without giving it one last chance to embrace her.
Inspired by a successful protest in Poland, she and her new friends (who happen to include an angel of death named Azriel) use her position at the newspaper to make their voices heard, spurring a movement that promises to create change in Hungary forever.
But is it truly enough to give Csilla and her people a home? Or is she only delaying the inevitable? Diaspora readers in particular will undoubtedly relate to this gorgeously poetic and heartbreaking tale of living in a place that may not love you back. —Dahlia Adler Get it from Bookshop or your local bookstore via Indiebound.
