Totally Biased Reviews with Rebecca Morrison | The Blue Dress
Release Date: 02/06/2026
Totally Biased Reviews with Rebecca Morrison | The Blue Dress
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Find The Blue Dress here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374393595/thebluedress/ About this book: For fans of Jasmine Warga and Starfish, an Iranian American girl navigates complicated relationships with her mother, her best friend, and her body image in this unflinching and ultimately uplifting middle-grade debut. Sometimes Yasmin feels like her body isn’t hers. And it’s not just because puberty has mounted a full-on alien invasion, or that emigrating from Iran a year-and-a-half ago has meant one change after another. It’s also because her mother constantly pushes her to lose...
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Totally Biased Reviews with Jason Ezell | For a Spell
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Buy For a Spell, here - More about the book: In the Southeastern United States of the late 1970s, a regional network of radical communal gay households formed in the face of rising New Right terror. Consisting of primarily white, self-described sissies, the Southeast Network, as it came to be known, spanned from the Ozarks, to New Orleans, to Appalachian Tennessee. Though this network was short-lived, its legacy lives on today through Short Mountain Sanctuary, a thriving member of the international Radical Faerie movement. Jason Ezell’s intimate account of the formation and dissolution of...
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Totally Biased Reviews with Eamon Dolan | The Power of Parting
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Buy The Power of Parting here: Find Eamon Dolan Here: About the book: A myth-shattering, inspiring book that combines research, reportage, and memoir to explore the growing phenomenon of estrangement from toxic relatives—showing it not as a tragedy, but as an empowering and effective solution to the heartbreak of family abuse. After decades of enduring his mother’s physical and psychological torment, after years of trying in vain to set boundaries, Eamon Dolan took a radical step: he cut his mother out of his life. No more phone calls, no more visits, no more contact. Parting with his...
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Totally Biased Reviews with Anna Ioanes | Painful Forms
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Buy Painful Forms: Find out more about Anna at her website or follow her on Bluesky: @annaioanes.bsky.social About the book: Unsettling art unsettles our normalization of violence In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suffering of the sociopolitical moment, new ways of thinking about violence—as structural, systemic, and senseless—emerged. Artists and writers, however, challenged the cultural impulse to make sense of these new horrors, mobilizing what Anna Ioanes calls...
info_outlineFind The Blue Dress here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374393595/thebluedress/ About this book: For fans of Jasmine Warga and Starfish, an Iranian American girl navigates complicated relationships with her mother, her best friend, and her body image in this unflinching and ultimately uplifting middle-grade debut. Sometimes Yasmin feels like her body isn’t hers. And it’s not just because puberty has mounted a full-on alien invasion, or that emigrating from Iran a year-and-a-half ago has meant one change after another. It’s also because her mother constantly pushes her to lose weight, like sewing Yasmin a beautiful blue dress for Persian New Year that is too tight on purpose. At school, it doesn’t help that Yasmin’s best friend, Carmen, is petite and close to her own mother, or that popular-girl Zoe always has a mean comment to spare. Yasmin is sure her crush, Jack, won’t ever like her the way she is, either. With the pressure to fit in closing in on all sides, Yasmin starts taking desperate measures. But if being thin is supposed to make her happier, then why does losing weight feel like losing parts of herself, too? From debut author Rebecca Morrison comes The Blue Dress, a heart-rending, funny, and hopeful book inspired by her own life, relatable to anyone who has ever needed to break away from someone else’s vision of how they should look in order to embrace their true self I was born in Iran, immigrated to the United States in my teens, and now live in the Washington, DC, area. In 2020, after practicing law for over two decades, I decided to pursue my dreams of becoming a writer. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Newsweek, The Independent and HuffPost, among others. My debut novel, The Blue Dress, based on my childhood as an Iranian immigrant trying to fit into my family's expectations of beauty and my American homeland is coming out on March 24, 2026. I'm represented by Erin Niumata at Folio Literary Management for adult books and John Cusick at Folio Jr. for children's books. Totally Biased Reviews is a Parley Lit production in collaboration with Parley Productions. Hosted and Edited by Asha Dore and Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth. Music by Nuclear Peasant. Find more at www.TotallyBiasedReviews.com