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The bestselling author returns in fine madcap form with this novel set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco. Look, there's a black mamba in it, and the snake's got a name; that's already enough for us.

Here's a colloquium with the poet discussing, among other things, her forthcoming collection muted blood, which probes the intersection of policing and borders across bodies, sexualities, ethnicities, and genders, asking what it might take to thrive.