{"product_id":"good-morning-means-i-love-you","title":"Good Morning Means I Love You","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I've been saying it and saying it: Kendra Allen is a generational talent, and \u003ci\u003eGood Morning Means I Love You \u003c\/i\u003eproves me right again. Absolutely exquisite!\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Look Both Ways and Long Way Down\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGood Morning Means I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e does something extraordinary: It disassembles then reimagines what it means to be an advocate for oneself and loved ones, laying bare the dirty work that is building a life with one another. Allen's writing is a gut check; her characters bump their heads and are wisest when they are vulnerable, and then at their most tender, reveal to us what holds us back the most.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTyriek White, author of We Are a Haunting ​​​​​​​\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe electrifying and intimate first novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Collection Plate\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFruit Punch\u003c\/i\u003e, a searing story of a young Texan woman and the family she makes with two men \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A couple years after Noon and I fall in love, we fall in love with Micah--and a couple years after that, I have both of their babies. We choose, this land and this life. We share, ourselves and our sons. We name them, Morning and Night.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her arresting first novel, Kendra Allen investigates love, partnership, motherhood, pleasure and the pursuit of freedom in one young woman's defiantly unconventional terms. Rae has just returned to her family after leaving for a stretch and suddenly - that family being her two male partners and the sons, named Morning and Night, that she has mothered with each of them. In the span of one year, they will experience unfathomable depths of devastation--and joys they could never predict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Morning Means I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e follows Rae as she makes choices around sex, mothering, and partnership that are as stunning to everyone else as they are natural to herself. With pain and pleasure, she watches as her children learn to walk and give language to the world as her lovers contend with their own ideas of masculinity, personhood, and fatherhood. Along the way, Rae begins to understand the hardest and most beautiful truth: that we have only so much time on earth to make love, to make family, and to make good on the promise of this one, short life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a novel of the self in all its simultaneities and a living portrait of intimacy written in poetic, bold, and sensual prose that shines a light on what it means to redefine expectation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/18\/2026 (EAN 9780063388413, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eAllen, Kendra\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKendra Allen\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the memoir \u003cem\u003eFruit Punch, \u003c\/em\u003e the poetry collection \u003cem\u003eThe Collection Plate, \u003c\/em\u003e and the essay collection \u003cem\u003eWhen You Learn the Alphabet, \u003c\/em\u003e which won the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction, awarded by Kiese Laymon. She writes to music column \"Make Love in My Car\" for \u003cem\u003eSouthwest Review. \u003c\/em\u003eShe was born and raised in Dallas. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496183496982,"sku":"9780063388413","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780063388413.jpg?v=1783056918","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/good-morning-means-i-love-you","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}