At thirty-five, Sonny Gutierrez lives a comfortable life in San Jose, California with his wife and young daughter. When he discovers a long lost son, Sonny finds himself on a cross-country road trip with a 20-year-old pregnant woman, robbing a Git-N-Go store, and running with a herd of buffalo. Bellies and Buffalos is a story about letting go, getting lost, and returning home.

Bellies and Buffalos (Contemporary American Novellas)

Moniz, Tomas

Literature & Fiction

Black Hill Press

Riot Parent (Rad Dad)

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

1984 Printing

All Friends Are Necessary: A Novel

In this joyous, big-hearted novel, Tomas Moniz--a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Lambda Literary awards--delivers a commanding new story about the power of friendship, community, and the families we create for ourselves. Efren "Chino" Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. In Washington, he was a beloved middle school biology teacher with a loving wife, and a child on the way until a stunning loss changed his life. Now, he's working temp jobs, terrified of commitment, and struggling to put himself back out into the world. But there to nurture Chino is a coterie of new and old friends and lovers who form a protective web around him. Closest to him are Metal Matt, a red-haired metalhead with a soft spot for Courtney Love and a rangy dog named Sabbath, and Mike and Kay, a couple whose literary edge is matched only by the success of their secret OnlyFans account. As Chino begins to date more men and women--and to open himself up again to love--his bonds with other people grow both rich and profound. Like a fern blooming in the wake of a forest fire, new life comes after even the most devastating upheaval. With gorgeous, heart-rending detail and a seemingly infinite catalogue of tender, unexpected interactions, Tomas Moniz has created a striking mosaic of desire and belonging that will appeal to fans of Garth Greenwell, Jaquira Díaz, and Patricia Lockwood. An anthem to both queer and platonic love, All Friends Are Necessary evinces the wonder of friendship and the joy of giving yourself up to the essential force of community.

United States

Algonquin Books

In this "tender and open-hearted novel," (Nina LaCour,&nbsp;author of&nbsp;Yerba Buena)&nbsp;Tomas Moniz--a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Lambda Literary awards--delivers a commanding new story about the power of friendship, community, and the families we create for ourselves. Efren "Chino" Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping from sublet to sublet. In Washington, he was an adored middle school biology teacher with a loving wife, and a child on the way--that is, until a stunning loss upended his life. Now he's working temp jobs, terrified of commitment, and struggling to put himself back out into the world. But there to nurture Chino is a coterie of new and old friends and lovers who form a protective web around him. Closest to him are Metal Matt, a red-haired metalhead with a soft spot for Courtney Love and a rangy dog named Sabbath, and Mike and Kay, a couple whose literary edge is matched only by the success of their secret OnlyFans account. As Chino begins to date more men and women--and to open himself up again to love--his bonds with those around him grow both rich and profound. Like a fern blooming in the wake of a forest fire, new life comes after even the most devastating upheaval. With gorgeous, heartrending detail and a seemingly infinite catalogue of tender, unexpected interactions, Tomas Moniz has created a striking mosaic of desire and belonging. An anthem to both queer and platonic love, All Friends Are Necessary evinces the wonder of friendship and the joy of giving yourself up to the essential force of community. "Vibrant, alive, and absolutely devastating in its beauty, All Friends Are Necessary is like a late-night phone call with your best friend--exuberant, confessional, and above all, honest."--Chelsea Bieker,&nbsp;author of Godshot and Madwoman

Collaboration playfully explores the various ways we work and play with one another and the world around us. Dancing between poetry and narrative, the story rhythmically demonstrates how collaboration shapes our lives. Designed so that parents and children can discuss how the words and watercolor illustrations come together to conjure each idea, and how each image is "both the sum of its parts and a new thing entirely." Bilingual edition.
 Colaboración alegremente explora las diversas maneras en que trabajamos y jugamos el uno con el otro y con el mundo que nos rodea. Bailando entre la poesía y la narrativa, el cuento explora rítmicamente las formas infinitas que la colaboración moldea a nuestras vidas.. Está diseñado para que los padres y los niños puedan discutir cómo las palabras y las ilustraciones de acuarela se unen para evocar cada idea, cada imagen es "tanto la suma de sus partes y una completamente nueva cosa." Edición bilingüe.

Collaboration: Ways We Work Together

Children's Books

Growing Up & Facts of Life

AK Press

Rad Dad #18: Sex & Love

Hot on the heels of Rad Dad 19, we're excited to announce the release of issue 20! This issues features articles about special needs children, traditional Japanese grandparents, queer male allies, and an interview with Brian Heagney—the author, illustrator, and publisher of the kid's book, The ABCs of Anarchism. Some of this issue is learning lessons from your children—or even them teaching you lessons—and as always, Rad Dad is a forum and a source of hope that parents and children can one day be welcomed in radical spaces. This is important reading—vital stuff for parents and nonparents alike.

Rad Dad #20

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Microcosm Publishing

It's the Rad Dad Occupy issue! In issue #21, Rad Dad editor Tomas Moniz and co. take on the recent global occupations from a radical parent's perspective. Are potentially volatile protests like Occupy Wall Street kid-friendly? Are the folks behind the Occupy events organized enough to keep your children safe should the balance of power tip? Issue #21's contributors tackle the topic from a variety of angles, giving a balanced, clear-eyed spectrum of advice. This classic for-radical-parents by-radical-parents publication is essential reading for parents and non-parents alike.

Rad Dad #21

In his biggest issue ever, Tomas continues to focus on anarchism and parenting. Our trusty editor zeroes in on sex and love this time around—talking to his son about internet pornography, a disturbing story of a single mother who is fetishized as such, a few people's stories of polyamory and non-monogamy, a troubled tale of nude photos of children, a sad story about anarchist mentalities driving a wedge between a mother and her anarchist community, Dani Burlison bribes her daughter not to kiss a boy until she's 18, kids learning violence—from Star Wars, and an interview with Dr. Chris White about teaching sex education to sex educators.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

As Rad Dad editor Tomas Moniz says in issue 19's first essay, Parenting has taught me a lot about dealing with things I’d rather not deal with.” This is the Rad Dad heavy topics” issue; its pages are concerned with talking to your kids about topics you might shy away fromimportant issues like racism, sexism, death, domestic violence, police brutality, and environmental crisis. Rad Dad is, as always, about communication, about not shutting off when your kids need help making sense of the things happening around them. And sometimes that's the hardest partwhen you yourself are fighting to make sense of a changing terrain. The psychic landscape this issue navigates can be harrowing but Rad Dad retains the loving, constructive light of positivity and forward motion it has cultivated since issue 1. This is important readingvital stuff for parents and nonparents alike.

Rad Dad #19

Big Familia follows Juan Gutiérrez, a self-employed single father, as he navigates a tumultuous year of inescapable change. His daughter, Stella, is on the verge of moving away to college; his lover, Jared, is pressing him for commitment; and his favorite watering hole—a ramshackle dive presided over by Bob the Bartender—is transforming into a karaoke hotspot. The story is set in a neighborhood that is also changing, gentrification inciting the ire of the established community. Upon the unexpected death of one of the bar’s regulars, Juan is sent reeling, and a series of upheavals follow as he both seeks and spurns intimacy, pondering the legacy of distant parents and a failed marriage and grappling with his sexuality—all the while cycling and dating, drinking at Nicks Lounge, and parenting a determined and defiant child-become-woman. When his incarcerated father dies and Stella reveals she’s pregnant, Juan is forced to examine the emotional bonds that both hold and hinder him, to reassess his ideas of commitment, of friendship, of love. His encounters with various characters—his mother, his ex-wife, a middle-aged punker, an aspiring acupuncturist, a dapper veteran—lead Juan to the realization that he himself must change to thrive. This is a story of making family and making mistakes, of rending and of mending. As a Latinx queer father with a mixed-race daughter, Juan exemplifies the ways identity connects and divides us. With wit, insight, and tenderness, Big Familia explores the complexities of desire, devotion, and the mysteries of the heart.

Big Familia: A Novel (ACRE)

Acre Books

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Bellies and Buffalos (Contemporary American Novellas)

Riot Parent (Rad Dad)

All Friends Are Necessary: A Novel

All Friends Are Necessary: A Novel

Collaboration: Ways We Work Together

Rad Dad #20

Rad Dad #21

Rad Dad #18: Sex & Love

Rad Dad #19

Big Familia: A Novel (ACRE)