All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil

She curates the fairytale reading series All Kinds of Fur and lives with her family in a cottage where the forest meets the city. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Michelle has lived in Portland, Oregon for many years. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, All of Us With Wings, was called “…a fantastical ode to the Golden City’s post-punk era” by Entertainment Weekly, and her second novel, Summer in the City of Roses, just came out last July. All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil 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. Michelle Ruiz Keil is a writer, tarot reader, coyote whisperer, mythpunk word witch with an eye for the enchanted and a way with animals.

Also, we’re wishing for our listeners all the REs: revitalization, re-emergence, resets, and more. And yet, because Write-Minded is committed to bringing you doses of inspiration each week, this week we’re talking with Michelle Ruiz Keil about changing up your routine, borrowing (in this case from mythic structures), and even rethinking or reworking your existing content with fresh ideas. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is on her own in San Francisco, running from a painful past. 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.This week’s episode starts by addressing some of the burnout lots of us are feeling with yet another phase of the pandemic among other crises. Michelle Ruiz Keils OwnVoices debut is a literary YA fantasy about love, found family, and healing-an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican American girl. Filled with dizzying danger and electrifying music, All of Us with Wings left me breathless. Entertainment Weekly A spellbinding tale about finding magic in the mundane and hope in the unknown. 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. Michelle Ruiz Keil crafts a fantastical ode to the Golden City’s postpunk era. 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. 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