By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Lambda Literary Award finalist
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran clear of the United States with backpacks and ended up in Canada, the place she came upon queer anarchopunk love and revolution, but remained haunted by means of the explanations she left domestic within the first position. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of goals and nightmares, of immigration courtroom lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it finds how a disabled queer lady of colour and abuse survivor navigates the soiled river of the prior and, because the subtitle indicates, "dreams her method home."
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry booklet Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award.
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