Hella Goode Is the Fool
by Rowan TwosistersSetting: Texas
Genres: Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Gay
Published on March 5, 2026
Pages: 238
Format: eBook Source: Owned
The tarnished silver Airstream squats in the desert like a middle finger to my chaotic past-the ex's betrayal, selling my birth center, everything that made me a retired midwife at fifty-three. Salt, my dog, knows something's shifting before I do-always does. Marfa calls, but I take one big fat detour. But some calls won't be ignored. This desert town deals in more than art installations and fantastic public radio. Here, magic has teeth, and babies, and my calling has tracked me down at the crossroads. Question is: am I ready to let this place remake me, or will I keep running from what I'm becoming?
I got a free ebook copy of this book from Jessica Rosenberg’s newsletter. She’s my dealer. If she tells me to read something I should listen because we have similar taste.
This is a novella that is the start of a series about a midwife who has retired and sold her birthing center. She’s moved into an Airstream with her dog and went to visit a friend.
I’m over 50 years old; I’ve seen some shit.
Hella lives in a world where she is very attuned to the elements and the energy around her. She’s trying to find a place to be that feels right to her. She consulted an astrocartographer who told her to go to Marfa Texas so she’s heading that way.
The book is about trying to find your place when everything is upended. Hella wants to be by herself and write a book about tarot. She keeps getting drawn back into healing.
Eventually she finds a mostly abandoned place to buy with good magical energy. This novella is setting up the next books because not a lot happens in it but you get a good feel for who Hella is and where she is coming from.
My travel Pharmacy looks like I’m preparing for the apocalypse, but hey, at least I’ll be a well-medicated survivor. To be fair, in an apocalypse, I’m gonna die fast or get converted and be part of the problem. I’m just not build with an inexhaustible need to stay alive.
Girl, same.
And I’d been burned before for trying to save people from lessons they weren’t ready to learn.
Spoiler alert: divorced women are their own soulmate. Behold my new mantra.
Sometimes trusting your gut means you’ve already done the groundwork without realizing it.
I’ve gotten the next book in the series. There are several out which I’m glad about since this is an author that no one knows about yet. I’m glad she wrote what she wanted and put it out there instead of waiting to see if the first got traction and then not writing the rest.
