The Breaks
A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world. In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children’s radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable and revolutionary paths. The Breaks celebrates queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the stark binaries that shape contemporary U.S. discourse. With nuance and generosity, Singh reveals the connections among the crises humanity faces—climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy, and colonialism—inviting us to move through the breaks toward a tenable future.
No Archive Will Restore You (2018) is Punctum's top-selling book. It was a finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Nonfiction, and received praise from Maggie Nelson. The Breaks will be published simultaneously in the UK by Daunt Books as their lead nonfiction title. Blurbs in hand from Imani Perry and Bhanu Kapil. Bringing to galley room and pitching at Winter Institute 2021. Like Mira Jacob's Good Talk, mixes humor and charm of anecdotes from a young child with serious topics. Adds to growing conversation and writing around queer familes and queer parenting. Addresses current issues honestly but hopefully. A healing reading experience, the kind of book that's desperately needed after the series of one crisis after another that have unfolded over the past year. For readers of Mira Jacob, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kiese Laymon, James Baldwin, Maggie Nelson
| Autor: | Singh, Julietta |
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| ISBN: | 9781566896160 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Veröffentlicht: | 07.09.2021 |
| Schlagworte: | FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / LGBT FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies |
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