The novel has an air of magical realism, which Callender says reflects how they see the world. Filled with guilt and shame over the episode, King helps Sandy as he tries to escape his abusive dad, but the situation rapidly spins out of control. Back when Sandy came out to King, Khalid overheard and warned King to stay away lest others think he was gay, too (which, King is realizing, he might just be). In attempting to find his dragonfly brother, King runs into former friend Sandy. King believes that Khalid isn’t really gone, he has just transformed into a dragonfly. King and the Dragonflies is the story of Kingston “King” James, a middle schooler in rural Louisiana who is grappling with the death of his older brother, Khalid. “I really wanted to tackle a lot of issues that black queer people experience when it comes to the intersection of having to deal with both racism and homophobia,” they say. 4), had a simple genesis: Over dinner, the author and their editor realized they couldn’t think of any middle-grade books with a gay black boy as the protagonist. Kacen Callender’s new novel, King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic, Feb.
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