I Hope You Stay

Courtney Peppernell

From heartbreak to dreaming of and finding a new love to healing the heart to ultimately finding peace, the themes in this book are universal but also uniquely individual to readers. Just as moving and endearing as Peppernell's previous books, I Hope You Stay is a reminder of the resilience and hope needed after heartache and pain. The book is divided into five sections, with poems ranging from free verse to short form. These words are a light in the deepest hours of the night: Hold on. The sun is coming.


Rainbow Reads for Adults

  • I Hope You Stay


  • How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir


  • Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture


  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters


  • Me, Myself, They


  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous


  • Mean


  • We Had No Rules


  • Cantoras


  • I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World


  • Under the Udala Trees


  • The Great Believers


  • The Lie and How We Told It


  • Disintegrate/Dissociate: Poems