Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home

by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Book Overview

Lambda Literary Award finalist

In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155152600X
• ISBN13: 9781551526003
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"