Walking Practice

After crashing on an unfamiliar planet, a shapeshifting alien struggles to adapt to Earth's gravity and to learn how to walk for survival. To sustain themself they hunt humans, shifting gender, appearance, and manner to match a prey's desire and luring victims through a popular dating app. When one night they fail to kill their meal, the alien is propelled into an unraveling chase that turns hunger into a painful reckoning about what it means to be human. Equal parts psychological thriller and lyrical inquiry, the novel probes desire, disability, and the cost of being marked as other with an intimate, haunting voice that stays with you.

~ Included for its fierce imagination and urgent queer perspective that probes gender, disability, and the ache of belonging ~