One of . . . Electric Literature ’s "Most Anticipated Debuts of Early 2020" • O, The Oprah Magazine ’s "31 LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020" • Publishers Weekly ’s "Spring 2020 Literary Fiction Announcements"  • BuzzFeed 's  "Most Highly Anticipated Books of 2020"  •  The Millions 's "Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2020 Book Preview"  •  The Rumpus 's "What to Read When 2020 Is Just Around the Corner"  •  LGBTQ Reads 's "2020 LGBTQAP Adult Fiction Preview: January-June"  •  Lit Hub ’s "Most Anticipated Books of 2020"  •  BookRiot ’s " Must-Read Debut Novels of 2020"   •  Bitch ’s  "27 Novels Feminists Should Read in 2020"  •  Harper’s Bazaar 's "14 LGBTQ+ Books to Look For in 2020"   •  NewNowNext ’s "11 Queer Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Spring"   •  Cosmopolitan 's "12 Books You'll Be Dying to Read This Summer" •  Salon ’s "The Best and Boldest New Must-Read Books for May"  • Lambda Literary’s “Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of May 2020”   •   The Rumpus's "What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Mothers" "A queer tour-de-force . . . Compelling and astonishing."–Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause—despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss—until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie’s mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she’s never heard of. In an effort to run from her own grief and discover the truth about Iris—who made no secret of her discomfort with her daughter's sexuality—Maggie embarks on a road trip, determined to hand-deliver the letters and find out what these men meant to her mother. Maggie quickly discovers Iris’s second, hidden life, which shatters everything Maggie thought she knew about her parents’ perfect relationship. What is she supposed to tell her father and brother? And how can she deal with her own relationship when her whole world is in freefall? Told over the course of a funeral and shiva, and written with enormous wit and warmth, All My Mother's Lovers  is the exciting debut novel from fiction writer and book critic Ilana Masad. A unique meditation on the universality and particularity of family ties and grief, and a tender and biting portrait of sex, gender, and identity, A ll My Mother's Lovers challenges us to question the nature of fulfilling relationships. “There are many things for which All My Mother’s Lovers should be praised for, not least of which is its cast of dynamic, complicated queer characters whose relationship problems have nothing to do with how they identify. . . . All My Mother’s Lovers is engaging, and confident, and often wry.” —Los Angeles Review of Books "A debut that explores sexuality, family trauma, and grief  —  after our main character's mother dies in a car crash and leaves mysterious letters to five different men  —  but it's all packed in a smart, funny package." — Entertainment Weekly “Surprising and illuminating, Masad’s debut is not what I expected — it’s better. All My Mother’s Lovers brings nuance to well-worn topics of literary exploration: family, identity, and relationships.” — InStyle "The 20 Best Books of 2020"   "This probing, beautiful debut novel by Ilana Masad is an intimate meditation on grief, identity, love, and inheritance. . . . [A] daughter's journey to realizing her mother was also a woman, and a tender tribute to the power of forgiveness, understanding, and hope." — Refinery 29   "With her debut novel, Ilana Masad presents a sharp meditation on the ways our parents shape us." — Marie Claire   "Ilana Masad's debut is a queer tour de force. A tender look at love, relationships, motherhood, and how we oftentimes hurt the people we love most with our silence. Compelling and astonishing, All My Mother's Lovers  is a novel with family dynamics at its heart. This book goes hard and does not disappoint. Masad is a writer on the rise." —Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things   "This ambitious, deft, compassionate debut novel finds eternal truths in a very contemporary story: that even those we care for most remain mysteries to us, that our judgments of others' lives are always inadequate, that love demands heroism. Ilana Masad is an exciting talent." —Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You  and Cleanness   "Masad has written a melancholy and memorable reminder of how little we often know about the people who raise us, not just as caretakers, but as human beings with hopes and heartaches." – USA Today "Masad is deft and incisive about the sometimes-fraught nature of mother-daughter relationships, around which loaded subtext can seem to twist and twine like Christmas lights. And she affectingly plumbs the mind-bending hugeness that is losing a parent."— The   Washington Po