Homebodies

"""I saw so much of myself in Homebodies, and in Mickey's utterly delicious and sometimes aching story. Mickey made me look back and love my young Black woman self, and I loved her so much for returning me to that place."" -- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois ""Homebodies is a modern marvel--Tembe Denton-Hurst's prose is both intimate and hysterical, inflammatory and elegiac. You'll root for Mickey as she takes on the world, questioning and searching its contours, weaving a story we can't help but find our own worlds inside of. Denton-Hurst has written a warm, brilliant novel that's stunning and poignant; Homebodies is wonderfully witty and full of empathy and entirely original."" -- Bryan Washington, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot ""Homebodies is a beautiful story on becoming. Denton-Hurst's prose is perfect with an innate attention to detail and astonishing ability to capture the shapes and colors of emotions as she brilliantly illuminates the growing pains of forging one's own path...something which so many of us are still looking to do. This is a deeply felt, assured literary debut by a writer worth watching."" -- Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of award-winning novels Here Comes the Sun and Patsy ""Sharp and heartfelt and keenly observed--I devoured this book."" -- Katie Cotugno, New York Times Bestselling author of Birds of California ""Homebodies is a sharp and tender exploration of what it takes to make a place for yourself in a world that has not. Denton-Hurst deftly navigates the line between a knowing despair and an openhearted hope, contrasting the challenges Mickey faces from employers, lovers, and relatives who can't always see or name her value with the strength she draws from learning to see herself and the love that has always been available to her. A captivating and illuminating debut."" -- Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections ""This novel just gets it right. Maybe it's vivid storytelling or the intersectional approach to queerness, but this novel speaks to queer people of color who often feel isolated, stretched between two communities. Tembe Denton-Hurst balances a critique on white feminism through the lenses of a young, unapologetically Black, queer writer who's searching for her identity outside the bounds of her career, family, and long-term relationship."" -- Cosmopolitan ""Denton-Hurst dazzles with her stirring indictment of racism in media and its insidious effects on Mickey. . . Emotionally and politically resonant, this is not to be missed."" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) ""Tembe Denton-Hurst's debut novel astutely captures what it's like to fight for yourself in a world that's stacked against you."" -- Harper's Bazaar ""In her sharp, charming and passionate debut, 'Homebodies, ' Tembe Denton-Hurst showcases an eye for the details that matter. . . . It is this eye for the rhythms and textures of life -- of millennial digital media, of the death by a thousand cuts offered by workplace racism, of Maryland suburbia -- that makes this novel vivid and inviting."" -- New York Times Book Review ""Homebodies is crackling with wit and compulsively readable, but it's also an in-depth examination of the crushing reality that many workers in so-called ""dream jobs"". . .are ultimately expendable to the institutions they devote themselves to."" -- Vogue ""Excellent debut novel...we devoured it"" -- The Skimm"