When Trying to Return Home Format:Hardcover from race and gender to

from race and gender to sex and drugs—building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own

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When Trying to Return Home Format:Hardcover from race and gender toA dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyondand an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own termsProfoundly moving and powerful, the stories in When Trying to Return Home dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free