What Looks LIke Crazy On an Ordinary Day: A Sensual, Life-Affirming Novel of Family, Community, and Unexpected Love (Idlewild, 1) | Pearl Cleage [2026 honoree] Storytide also by Bahram Rahman

also by Bahram Rahman

Birds keep destroying the plants

magical fruits

and racing and laughing

What Looks LIke Crazy On an Ordinary Day: A Sensual, Life-Affirming Novel of Family, Community, and Unexpected Love (Idlewild, 1) | Pearl Cleage [2026 honoree] Storytide also by Bahram Rahman2026 C. T. Vivian Kaleidoscope honoree After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewildher fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost