We Came to Welcome You anthology they are bound to become

they are bound to become like uña y mugre

National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of marginalized people

and what it means to fall out of step with your own dreams

The middle volume

We Came to Welcome You anthology they are bound to becomeThe Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated community that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread akin to the social horror of Jordan Peele and Lovecraft CountyWe Came to Welcome You cleverly uses the uncanny to illuminate the cultish, shocking nature of systemic racism. Where beauty lies, secrets are held ugly