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Love Cake
Overview
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Poetry, 2012
Honourable Mention, San Francisco Book Festival, Poetry, 2012
In Love Cake, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of colour resist and transform violence through love and desire. Refusing to forget the traumas of post 9/11 Islamophobia, and Sri Lanka's civil war, Love Cake documents the persistence of survival and beauty. It maps the complicated, luscious joy of reclaiming the body and sexuality after abuse, examines a family history of violence with compassion, and celebrates the beautiful resistance of queer people of colour in love and home-making.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781894770699
- ISBN-10: 1894770692
- Publisher: Tsar Publications
- Publish Date: September 2011
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.35 pounds
- Page Count: 104
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