Finalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize This memoir-in-poems examines a complex family through horticulture, heterocentricism, and-wait for it!-Nancy Drew. The speaker as queerly astute girl-sleuth "cross-examines the microwave" and probes the "empty ghosts in the basement closet." The result is a page-turner in which the promise of each arresting title-among them, "Dusk Lands on Page 37 of The Whispering Statue" and "Our House is Menstruating"-is...
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