This novel is held together more by vibes than plot. The story centers around three trans men: Pen, a dogwalker living in New York, who is very jealous of Aiden, a Gram Influencer; he hatches a plot to hex Aiden back to into the Shadowlands (transition based depression). But the hex accidentally falls on Blithe, an LA scriptwriter, instead. The omnipresent trans crisis solutions organization, The Rhiz, tells Pen and Aiden that they have to team up to go rescue Blithe and help him find his way out of the Shadowlands. It was a bit unclear to me way Aiden agrees to this plan, but they do pair up and end up living together for the majority of the rest of the book in a very loose, under-employed millennial way. I enjoyed many of the digressions- Pen recounting experiences of his legal name change, mystical therapist, and dating a straight-passing celebrity- but in the end the book didn't really come together for me. 

A short, gentle story about grief and climate change told through the lens of a young girl's relationship to the ocean and the magical creatures who live in its coral reefs. Beautiful illustrations, queer in a quiet way. 

 
A very beautiful meditation on grief, through the lens of water. The author, who lost someone very dear to him to cancer when she was quite young, weaves through the history of surfing with his own experiences of surfing, and the oceanic properties of grieving.