lyric meditations on motherhood, being a daughter, and on how one shapes a voice for an adult convert are as necessary as food and water for the living soul.” 

– Eugene Gloria, author of Sightseer in this Killing City

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“These are gorgeous poems of hunger and grace. Melody S. Gee explores the convert’s relationship with faith and who we become through conversion. She crafts grief and loss into a new kind of knowing, how “a spill will always take a shape, a floating/map of damage.” The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat is a feast, a welcome arrival, a stellar book to savor and devour.”

– Lee Herrick, author of Scar and Flower

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Through the poetry of desire and faith, of motherhood and childhood, Melody S. Gee’s The Convert’s Heart Is Good to Eat offers an unflinching exploration of how the flesh and the spirit suffer wounds and yearn to be healed. These poems create and undo themselves in the most surprising and loveliest of ways. This book will make you believe. 

– W. Todd Kaneko, author of This Is How the Bone Sings

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“What happens when the call of spirit utterly changes a life? “To be consoled begins with grief,” Melody S. Gee writes, and I think about that prefix, con: how it means “with” in Latin; how Gee’s book is a chronicle of being with: with God, and with parents, children, and the old self, in the light of new faith. I thought too of the word concord—to “heart” with another. How do I walk in concord? This is the primary question of Gee’s moving book.”

– Dana Levin, author of Now Do You Know Where You Are