“A riot! Valérie Bah strikes just the right notes in this ludic exploration of lives caught in the clash between gentrification, activism and art-making. Arguing against the disposability of Black, queer/trans and working-poor individuals whose shimmering idiosyncrasies, from the endearing to the startling, thrum on the margins of a bustling metropolis, Bah's character-driven polyvocal text demands that we not look away from the humanity on whose backs urban centers are built. Irreverent, raucous, hallucinatory – this novel illuminates tendrils of beauty tumbling out from fissures of urban decay.” –Myriam J. A. Chancy, author of Village Weavers and What Storm, What Thunder