Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton
There are books that transport you, and then there are books that hurl you bodily through time and space, leaving you breathless and disoriented in the best possible way. Yvonne Battle-Felton’s Curdle Creek is decidedly the latter—a fever-dream odyssey that begins in an all-Black town governed by nightmarish traditions and spirals into something far more expansive and terrifying.