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 queer
woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the
past and, as the subtitle suggests, dreams her way home.
Leah
Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a
Lambda Literary Award.