This book is sort of meant to be like, ‘Hey, it’s okay to figure it out.
“We all make mistakes, especially when we’re kids and we are not necessarily defined by what people expect of us or what people think we’re supposed to be. It’s a full circle moment to debut her first novel at the first bookstore she walked into in Long Beach, but a moment that has been decades in the making. You know, with it being my first book, I especially think there’s so much of myself in it as well and it’s interesting to kind of present yourself to the world that way.” “It feels amazingly scary and scarily amazing. Six years and two cities later, Turner, 32, released her labor of love into the world at The Hangout in Long Beach on Valentine’s night. The details were muddy, but the themes were loud and clear, like the chugging of the G train Turner sat on that fall night.
After a full day at her new job at a publishing company, she hopped on a train to her Brooklyn apartment, opened up an empty note on her phone and started her first novel.Īs the city lights zoomed by, Turner wrote down ideas that would shape her debut young adult novel: a Black, queer teenage girl finding her place in the world, a mother struggling to accept her daughter, a teenager at the intersection of queerness and religion.
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