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“Monster in the Middle” is a radical love story that proves “when you meet your love, you are meeting all the people who ever loved them, or who were supposed to love them but didn’t love them enough or, hell, didn’t love them at all,” writes Yanique. Central to her novel is the union of Stela and Fly, but that comes later. First readers meet the people who made Stela and Fly, and the people who made them.
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“A peripatetic, multigenerational saga, Monster in the Middle is a meditation on love, especially the Black love of Fly and Stela across the landscape of late 20th- and early 21st-century America. The book is a departure for Yanique: Her previous two, a story collection and novel, centrally concerned the U.S. Virgin Islands, where she is from, and leaned toward the historical and magical....” — Mik Awake
Kirkus Most Anticipated Books of the 2021
A rich and honest examination of family histories, cultural disconnection, and the way people fall in love.
Publisher's Weekly.
Monster in the Middle: Each arc reads as an evocative short story and an episode in the two protagonists’ complex set of unraveled connections. This introspective exploration of first and lasting loves will hit the spot with fans of character-driven family dramas.
“For her debut novel, Yanique (author of the story collection How to Escape from a Leper Colony) has written an epic multigenerational tale set in the U.S. Virgin Islands that traces the ambivalent history of its inhabitants during the course of the 20th century.”
Review for Land of Love and Drowning
“A debut novel traces the history of the U.S. Virgin Islands through the fate of a family marked by lust, magic and social change.”
Review for Land of Love and Drowning
“This debut novel is so gorgeously written and such a joy to read that I doled it out to myself in 20-page sips to make the pleasure last as long as possible. What more can I say?!”
Review for Land of Love and Drowning
“One of the “5 Under 35” authors chosen by the National Book Foundation, Yanique draws from the rich history of her native Virgin Islands for this multigenerational saga that begins in the early 1900s. Two sisters are orphaned after a shipwreck and must make their way from rags to riches with only their wits—and their remarkable ability to make men fall at their feet.”
PUBLISHED ONLINE
Yanique, Tiphanie, “‘God's Caravan.’” The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019.
Kirkus Most Anticipated Books of the 2021
A rich and honest examination of family histories, cultural disconnection, and the way people fall in love.
Publisher's Weekly.
Monster in the Middle: Each arc reads as an evocative short story and an episode in the two protagonists’ complex set of unraveled connections. This introspective exploration of first and lasting loves will hit the spot with fans of character-driven family dramas.
“For her debut novel, Yanique (author of the story collection How to Escape from a Leper Colony) has written an epic multigenerational tale set in the U.S. Virgin Islands that traces the ambivalent history of its inhabitants during the course of the 20th century.”
Review for Land of Love and Drowning
“A debut novel traces the history of the U.S. Virgin Islands through the fate of a family marked by lust, magic and social change.”
Review for Land of Love and Drowning
“This debut novel is so gorgeously written and such a joy to read that I doled it out to myself in 20-page sips to make the pleasure last as long as possible. What more can I say?!”
Review for Land of Love and Drowning
“One of the “5 Under 35” authors chosen by the National Book Foundation, Yanique draws from the rich history of her native Virgin Islands for this multigenerational saga that begins in the early 1900s. Two sisters are orphaned after a shipwreck and must make their way from rags to riches with only their wits—and their remarkable ability to make men fall at their feet.”
PUBLISHED ONLINE
Yanique, Tiphanie, “‘God's Caravan.’” The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019.