Jillian in the Borderlands

With stunning buoyancy, these linked stories build a world of hope and magic, while challenging the hardships humans so often create for themselves, in unison, in love and loss. Alvarado has crafted a world one wants to sink into, full of empathy, sly humor, beauty and charm, while also looking directly at the question of what it means to be human in a world of humans, in spirit and body, roaming the margins together.

–Monica Drake