Dan Letchworth

Phoenix Dawn Dan Letchworth

In the endless skies of a planet with no surface, a birdlike queer girl named Coda sails alone. Her mother is an absent addict, and her best friend has vanished. Just when she's at her most aimless, the sun god appears to Coda in a storm, granting her visions of other worlds, the ability to see across the electromagnetic spectrum, and a divine mission. Elsewhere, a primate named Ran is leaving his forest home for the first time. His older brother, desperate to start a family, is uprooting their lives to move to the city on the coast-where the racial majority walks upright, eats only meat, and builds awe-inspiring spacecraft. As Ran adjusts to culture shock, his sole bright spot is the dream of flying. Phoenix Dawn is a tale of first contact between worlds, the struggle to empathize with people who live-and love-in unfamiliar ways, and the crises of faith that arise from meeting one's gods firsthand.