Steeped in grief and striving for grace, King delivers a timely collection for those who have somehow survived every next worst thing that keeps happening. Prompted by 2020’s cataclysmic events and further propelled by the resurgence of similar horrors in 2024, King captures the toll of generational survival through lenses both staunch and scathing. This side of heaven, there is no such thing as safety—so how do you hold your head up when the world keeps ending over and over again? Composed of 33 poems and accompanied by 18 illustrations, "Late in the Midnight Hour" is an unflinching archive of fury, faith, and everything else it takes to establish, uphold, and embrace one’s own livelihood—because this too is prayer.