Milk Blood Heat (First Edition)

Moniz, Dantiel W.

ISBN 10: 0802158153 / ISBN 13: 9780802158154

Published by Grove Press, New York, 2021

About this Item

NEW YORK: Grove Press, 2021. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A clean, tight copy. Publisher's original price intact on front jacket flap ($25.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 202 pages. The book quickly went through multiple printings; this is the first printing, with full number line down to the 1. A debut collection of eleven stories set in contemporary Florida, exploring race, womanhood, faith, and familial bonds through characters on the verge of transformation. Dantiel W. Moniz is an American author whose work has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, and Ploughshares; MILK BLOOD HEAT was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and The Story Prize.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Milk Blood Heat (First Edition)
• Publisher: Grove Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802158153
• ISBN 13: 9780802158154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • African-American LIterature

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Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN AND PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM AWARDS

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35

"A gorgeous debut" (Lauren Groff) from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all.

A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning. These intimate portraits of people and relationships scour and soothe and blast a light on the nature of family, faith, forgiveness, consumption, and what we may, or may not, owe one another.

A thirteen-year-old meditates on her sadness and the difference between herself and her white best friend when an unexpected tragedy occurs; a woman recovering from a miscarriage finds herself unable to let go of her daughter—whose body parts she sees throughout her daily life; a teenager resists her family’s church and is accused of courting the devil; servers at a supper club cater to the insatiable cravings of their wealthy clientele; and two estranged siblings take a road-trip with their father’s ashes and are forced to face the troubling reality of how he continues to shape them.

Wise and subversive, spiritual and seductive, Milk Blood Heat forms an ouroboros of stories that bewitch with their truth, announcing the arrival of a bright new literary star.

About the Author

DANTIEL W. MONIZ is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, the Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award by the Key West Literary Seminars, and a Tin House Scholarship. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Paris Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, the Yale Review, Joyland, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. Milk Blood Heat is her first book. Moniz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches fiction. She lives in Northeast Florida.