Bluets, Maggie NelsonSuppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007)

Claude isn’t dangerous or brilliant—he’s an average kid coping with abandonment

This is a book Indian food lovers—and health-conscious eaters and vegetarians

but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle

and jaw-dropping surprises that captured millions of fans and inspired the hit TV show

alcoholic and psychotic wreckage they wreaked

their children (or their cats)

Alderton documents her life up to now

1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore

his involvement with Pixar

It is the last word in rock 'n' roll savagery

raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death

But as Wini and her friends grasp the true intent of their supposed saviors