Reveals on every page how love can persevere and take shape over time and space. Boston
GlobeTransporting and deeply emotional. Glamour One of the most inventive and talented stylists
of her generation. VultureFrom the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning an
electric new novel that maps the emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love. When Fly
and Stela meet in 21st Century New York City it seems like fate. He's a Black American
musician from a mixed-religious background who knows all about heartbreak. She s a Catholic
science teacher from the Caribbean looking for lasting love. But are they meant to be? The
answer goes back decades all the way to their parents' earliest loves. Vibrant and emotionally
riveting Monster in the Middle moves across decades from the U.S. to the Virgin Islands to
Ghana and back again to show how one couple's romance is intrinsically influenced by the
family lore and love stories that preceded their own pairing. What challenges and traumas must
this new couple inherit what hopes and ambitions will keep them moving forward? Exploring
desire and identity religion and class passion and obligation the novel posits that in order
to answer the question who are we meant to be with? we must first understand who we are and how
we came to be.
