Crosshairs, Catherine Hernandez

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Crosshairs – Catherine Hernandez

Hardcover (Remainder) — December 8, 2020

Remaindered – offered at half the cover price. May contain a remainder mark.

From award-winning Canadian author Catherine Hernandez comes a terrifyingly plausible queer dystopia about resistance, survival, and chosen family. Crosshairs imagines a near-future North America ravaged by climate disaster, political violence, and rising authoritarianism, when a brutal government force known as The Boots begins rounding up queer communities, BIPOC people, the disabled, and anyone deemed “Other.”

At the center of the resistance is Kay, a queer Black performer whose world collapses after losing both his livelihood as a drag artist and the love of his life. Joining forces with a transmasculine refugee, a determined social-worker, and a rogue military officer, Kay helps build a rebellion determined to fight back at extraordinary cost.

Both deeply political and emotionally urgent, Crosshairs confronts fascism through a lens of queer identity, community bravery, and radical love. Hernandez’s prose is raw, lyrical, furious, and ultimately hopeful—an unforgettable call to vigilance in a world that already looks dangerously close to this one.