{"product_id":"dirty-river-a-queer-femme-of-color-dreaming-her-way-home-paperback","title":"Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLambda Literary Award finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, dreams her way home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\u003c\/b\u003e's poetry book \u003ci\u003eLove Cake \u003c\/i\u003ewon a Lambda Literary Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled femme writer and performer of Burgher\/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish\/Roma ascent. She is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eLove Cake\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConsensual Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Revolution Starts at Home.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 03, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771629502752,"sku":"9781551526003","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/80ce8fa96ac66f8be5bd3665bf8566ef.webp?v=1780389946","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dirty-river-a-queer-femme-of-color-dreaming-her-way-home-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}