{"product_id":"fawns-blood-isbn-9781644214701","title":"Fawn's Blood","description":"\u003cb\u003eVampires, vampire slayers, and a bloodthirsty underground resistance converge in a campy YA fantasy about being a queer teen in a world that wishes they did not exist.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eLibrarian and critically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eOut of Salem \u003c\/i\u003eputs a pulpy spin on vampire fiction, and bites back at anti-trans moral panic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFawn and Silver share nearly everything: coming out together as trans in their small Maryland town, clocking a copious number of hours in detention, and spending their sleepovers secretly making out. They’re also uniquely obsessed with vampires, who are being hunted, imprisoned, and executed for the danger they allegedly pose to human life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile in Seattle, Rachel's relationship to her girlfriend and her membership in her mother's vampire-slaying vigilante group is thrown into question when she's bitten by her mother's nemesis and awakes with a craving for blood. When Silver disappears and Fawn goes west in search of him, her and Rachel’s fates converge, both falling into the hands of Cain, an edgelord vampire known for his proselytizing for the drinking of human blood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut in discovering hidden tunnels and secret bars, youth shelters and punk shows and safe houses, Fawn find herself in the middle of a vampire underground in Seattle—an organized resistance keeping each other alive through a network of blood distribution and protection from slayers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFawn’s Blood \u003c\/i\u003eis a timely antidote to the anti-trans moral panic of today. Playing with tropes about monstrousness, predation, and villainy, this multi-voiced vampire novel offers a paranormal YA fantasy full of complicated queer characters—human and monster alike—all of whom are simply trying to survive in a world that wants them dead.​\"Vampire stories are always gay but rarely are they so trans. Schrieve's tale of teen rebellion, friendship, and bloodsucking is ripe with hope for a better world—a world in which networks of mutual aid relationships support outsider communities, and people give and receive trust, pleasure, and magic outside of heterosexuality and government control. Buffy fans, this book will knock your socks off!​\" \u003cb\u003e—Maia Kobabe, ALA Alex Award-winning author and illustrator of \u003ci\u003eGender Queer: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Some writers give us a couple of characters, but Hal Schrieve gives us a whole community. Hir characters breathe; they seethe; they're driven by rage and longing; and they're indelible. \u003ci\u003eFawn's Blood \u003c\/i\u003eis unafraid of complexity and mess, and unafraid of love too. This is the queer vampire novel we deserve.\" —\u003cb\u003eIsaac Fellman, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDead Collections \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Breath of the Sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e ​\u003cbr\u003e\"Horror is always a metaphor, and in \u003ci\u003eFawn's Blood\u003c\/i\u003e that metaphor has teeth. Funny, hopeful, sad, and engrossing, Hal Schrieve has given us a bloodstained window to a better future.\" —\u003cb\u003eKyle Lukoff, National Book Award finalist, author of \u003ci\u003eA World Worth Saving\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fawn's Blood is so much more than a vampire story. It's a story of community resilience and resistance that effortlessly weaves queer history, trans identity, and modern political extremism into an urban fantasy setting. Reading this book feels like a form of activism, and I am all the better for it.\" \u003cb\u003e—Courtney Ulrich Smith, Underbrush Books, Rogers, Arkansas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHAL SCHRIEVE\u003c\/b\u003e is a children’s librarian in Manhattan and the best part of hir job is facilitating comics and creative writing workshops with young people. Ze is the author of the YA novels \u003ci\u003eHow to Get Over the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOut of Salem\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Hal’s comics are featured in \u003ci\u003eWe’re Still Here\u003c\/i\u003e, an all-trans comics anthology, and the zine \u003ci\u003eVery Online\u003c\/i\u003e. Hir comic \u003ci\u003eVivian’s Ghost \u003c\/i\u003ewas on the shortlist for Comics Beat’s 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award for Best Webcomic. Originally from Olympia, WA, Hal now lives in New York. Follow Hal at @howlmarin on Instagram and @hal_schrieve on Twitter.","brand":"Triangle Square","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233165750501,"sku":"NP9781644214701","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644214701.jpg?v=1767726781","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fawns-blood-isbn-9781644214701","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}