The Narrows by m. craig

m craig's debut novel is a coming-of-age tale for those who have always known they were a little different. Follow Sim as she discovers the Bikeway Narrows, an abandoned industrial neighborhood populated by questers and magic-weavers, bikers and coffee shop denizens who are looking to escape the oppressive city of Terresin. In this magical world plagued by inequality, greed and environmental woes, Sim must hold her own with her fearless and often dominating new friends while coming to terms with her sexuality and accepting her latent magical abilities. The Narrows is an engrossing work of fiction that combines fantasy, philosophy and spirituality in an exploration of what it means to be yourself.

Although thoroughly a fantasy novel, The Narrows is based on real-world places and rooted in the familiar—your favorite coffee shop, a punk show in an old warehouse, that lesbian bar you go to every week. It’s the first book in a queer fantasy series that asks the question: What does it mean to be a person who gives a f*ck in a world built upon inequality and exploitation, where there's more grey than good or evil, all while struggling to figure out who you really are? The Narrows is a part of The Magicweaver Sequence, which also includes Simetra. The books in this series are meant to be read in a random order-- the intention of the author is that readers start with whichever book they first encounter, but The Narrows is sequentially first.