Cross-Stitch Design is usually off fighting for

is usually off fighting for what matters to him or getting into mischief

and The Other Black Girl

and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free

tenderness

only that they have a short period of time to write a legendary album she can take on the road

Cross-Stitch Design is usually off fighting forA debut novel of female friendship and coming of age from Jazmina Barrera, acclaimed author of Linea Nigra and On Lighthouses, translated by Christina MacSweeney. It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime. Mila, Citlali, and Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the London of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafs and crushes, but not the early signs that they are each steadily, inevitably changing.