Crosshairs is a dystopian story told by Catherine Hernandez in such a powerful and poignant manner that it is heartbreaking and uplifting simultaneously. This centers around our protagonist, a drag queen who knows as a young boy that he is different and suffers through many abuses before being set free into the world of Toronto, Canada to discover who he really is/5(40). Catherine Hernandez is a proud queer woman of color, radical mother, theater practitioner, award-winning author, and the artistic director of b current Performing Arts and the Sulong Theatre. She is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, and Indian heritage, and she is married into the Navajo Nation. She is the author of the plays Singkil and Kilt Pins, the children’s book M Is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book, Released on: Decem. Catherine's second novel, Crosshairs, to be published in by HarperCollins Canada, Atria Books in the US and Jacaranda in the UK. I Promise, a children's picture book about how all queer families start with the promise to love a child, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press and illustrated by Syrus Marcus Ware in fall
Catherine Hernandez's sharp-eyed, queer dystopian fantasy is no gentle wake-up call. It is a blaring fire alarm and a call to arms against authoritarianism, white supremacy and transphobia. This surreal political nightmare unfolds in a near future in which an environmental disaster has ravaged the economy and amplified social tensions. "In Crosshairs, Catherine Hernandez shapes a world at once fantastical and familiar, remarkable and relatable. This multilayered story captivates as Hernandez alternates between pressing firmly on readers' exoskeletal fragilities and lightly stroking the places where empathy lives. The result is a sparkling but devastating novel about. Hernandez delivers beautiful and heartbreaking scenes in a story that is hard especially because of how close it feels to our present."-- "Booklist" "Crosshairs is a blistering page-turner. One can describe it as dystopic fiction, but Catherine Hernandez is presenting us with something much more prescient to consider.
Catherine Hernandez is a proud queer woman of color, radical mother, theater practitioner, award-winning author, and the artistic director of b current Performing Arts and the Sulong Theatre. She is of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, and Indian heritage, and she is married into the Navajo Nation. She is the author of the plays Singkil and Kilt Pins, the children’s book M Is for Mustache: A Pride ABC Book, and the novels Scarborough and Crosshairs. hi everyone! today i am here to share with you a book review of crosshairs by catherine hernandez. if you like queer sci-fi / dystopia, check it out. i recei. A casual book review on Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez, a not-so dystopian future where those who are not straight, white, able-bodied people are forced to hide, fight, or put to work in concentration camps.
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