Welcome to our LGBTQ+ issue! Among the many books we review this week: Aaron Foley's Boys Come First, with chapters alternating among a trio of gay Black millennial men in Detroit; Alexis Hall's A Lady for a Duke, a Regency romance between a transgender woman and her former best friend; and Kristen Arnett's With Teeth--now in paperback--a dark, often funny portrayal of queer parenthood and midlife from a lesbian mom in a faltering marriage.
In The Writer's Life, authors Phil Stamper (Small Town Pride) and R. Eric Thomas (Kings of B'More) discuss leaving homes, finding opportunities and "making a world [they] didn't have."
--Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor, Shelf Awareness