"Blanca & Roja" by Anna-Marie McLemore is a sort of Snow White/Rose Red meets Swan Lake retelling.  The del Cisne sisters are born into a family with a curse - one girl in each generation is claimed by the swans.  It's hard to describe this book - quiet and lush almost to the point of hallucinogenic.  It leans into modern fantasy / magical realism and things are described in details that are sometime critical to the story and sometimes just beautiful.  There is generational trauma and outsider status and class divisions.  There is also mystery and overabundant foliage and witchiness.  And queer identity and longing, of course.  I want to reread this #book in a hammock surrounded by humid forest and the sound of cicadas.

Anna Marie McLemore: "I’m nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them. I’m often a boy, sometimes a girl. The fact that I’ve written so many trans and nonbinary characters without knowing I was one is humbling, but I hope it’s also a reminder that so many of us are on the journey of claiming who we are. If you are, Blanca, Roja, Yearling, Page, and I are there with you."

Anna-Marie McLemore (they/them) is a queer, Latine, nonbinary author with ADHD and dyslexia who grew up hearing la llorona in the Santa Ana winds.  Their identity is a work in progress.