You Better Be Lightning (Button Poetry) Hafsah Faizal and desperate courage

and desperate courage

author of Goddess of Filth and The Haunting of Alejandra

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface

she can determine childhood diet—and thereby where a person was likely born

They plan to land roles as extras in her favorite actor’s upcoming movie

You Better Be Lightning (Button Poetry) Hafsah Faizal and desperate courage2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Gold Medal Winner 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal Winner 2022 Over the Rainbow Short List 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards Best Poetry Book Finalist 2021 Bookshop's Indie Press Highlights You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world,