All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil

Told through a lens of magical realism and steeped in myth, Summer in the City of Roses is a dazzling tale about the pain and beauty of growing up. In their first summer apart, Iph and Orr must learn to navigate their respective new spaces of music, romance, and sex-work activism-and find each other before a fantastical transformation fractures their family forever. Orr, in the meantime, has escaped the camp and fallen in with The Furies, an all-girl punk band, and moves into the coat closet of their ramshackle pink house. Enter George, a queer Robin Hood who swoops in on a bicycle, bow and arrow at the ready, offering Iph a place to hide out while she tracks down Orr. All of Us With Wings, Michelle Ruiz Keil’s mythology-inspired OwnVoices debut is a post-punk San Francisco fairytale about a seventeen-year-old Latinx governess, her tween genius change, the girl's rockstar family, and a pair of ancient children bound to right the wrongs of her stolen childhood. Furious at her father's betrayal, Iph storms off and gets lost in the maze of Old Town. When their father brings Iph to a work gala in downtown Portland and breaks the news, Orr has already been sent away against his will.

But this summer, with their mother gone at an artist residency, their father decides it's time for fifteen-year-old Orr to toughen up at a wilderness boot camp. She curates the fairytale reading series All Kinds of Fur and lives with her family in a cottage where the forest meets the city.Description Inspired by the Greek myth of Iphigenia and the Grimm fairy tale 'Brother and Sister,' Michelle Ruiz Keil's second novel follows two siblings torn apart and struggling to find each other in early '90s Portland.Īll her life, seventeen-year-old Iph has protected her sensitive younger brother, Orr. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Michelle has lived in Portland, Oregon for many years. 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. Michelle Ruiz Keil is a writer, tarot reader, coyote whisperer, mythpunk word witch with an eye for the enchanted and a way with animals. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is on her own in San Francisco, running from a painful past.

Also, we’re wishing for our listeners all the REs: revitalization, re-emergence, resets, and more. 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. 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. 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.

All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil