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Good Girls Don't Come Home

by Kindal Brown

A queer coming-of-age told in poems

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A queer coming-of-age told in poems

Kindal Brown’s debut collection links individual poems into a broader account of leaving home and living through heartbreak. Its speaker is a queer girl from the deep South, and the narrative spans lonely days and summer nights as she works to rebuild herself and her faith and find closure within herself. The collection’s arc is framed as a rise, a fall, and a return to brightness. The publisher notes that the book includes themes of alcoholism and suicide.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in poetry collections with a connected narrative.
  • Readers seeking LGBTQ+ fiction centered on a queer girl from the deep South.
  • Readers prepared to encounter themes of alcoholism and suicide.

Themes

Queer identityLeaving homeHeartbreak and closureFaithRebuilding after hardship

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Book overview

In their debut poetry collection, Kindal Brown tells the story of leaving home for heartbreak through the eyes of a queer girl from the deep South.

Discover how she rebuilds herself-and her faith-from her own ruins, and finds closure within herself. Each poem is deliberately woven into a larger narrative that follows lonely days and hot Summer nights from the eyes of an adult who's still just a kid, expressing many months in just over 100 pages. Like the Sun, witness her rise, fall, and come back brighter than before.*

"There's no day too dark
for the Sun to come again
and there's no denying the cruelty
that's inherently human
and there's no wound that can kill me
forever, it seems
and there's no one who can tell me
what my life truly means."

- Good Girls Don't Come Home

* "Good Girls Don't Come Home" includes themes of alcoholism and suicide.
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