![]() ![]() Kiera’s mother encourages her to “explore her feelings” and believes in “freedom of expression.” Ava’s mother is more wary, understanding in a way the other characters do not that there is real danger in this moment for the girls. ![]() Of course, close as they are, they don’t get to experience this passage in the same way. They are immersed in the delirium of early female adolescence, that moment when all the boundaries of childhood are breaking down and nothing has arrived yet to replace them, when the vividness and intensity of the world seem overwhelming. Kiera, who is white, and Ava, who is Black, are both 13. They mix their blood together in a bowl of milk that they then take turns drinking from because, as one of them says, “Pink is the color for girls.” Moniz’s debut collection, Milk Blood Heat, two teenage best friends decide to become blood sisters. ![]()
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