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DisCOKEnnected

Author : Mona E
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595378951
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book DisCOKEnnected written by Mona E and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever craved for a vacation from yourself, a parenthesis in the steady stream of your life? What does it take to lose it for a while, to have your life interrupted? We never cease to be who we are. We just forget. This is the story of a twenty-something woman, a self-described perpetual optimist, who moved to Los Angeles in search of her American Dream. While successfully recovering from an unexpected back surgery, she, against all odds, lets herself fall into that dark place that fails us all inside. One by one, she gives up on her promising career, financial stability and independence for the instant gratification of artificial bliss-that insatiable high. DisCOKEnnected is about more than drug addiction, it is a heartfelt incisive look at the struggle we all must overcome with our inner demons to ultimately reach spiritual happiness. Blending humor and compassion, it chronicles in a stream-of-consciousness style a woman's journey to self-rediscovery. It shows that only when we take ourselves apart can we see the pieces of ourselves. An uplifting story about hope and the realization that everything we search for is always already inside us-we merely become disconnected from it.

Acne

Author : Laura Chinn
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0306828901
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Acne written by Laura Chinn and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator and star of Florida Girls comes a hilarious and profound memoir about family, happiness, and really aggressive acne. Despite having dirty-blonde hair and fair skin, Laura Chinn is mixed-race: the daughter of a Black father and a white mother, which on its own makes for some funny and insightful looks at identity. Laura’s parents were both Scientologists and nonconformists in myriad ways. They divorced early in Laura’s childhood, and she spent her teen years ping-ponging back and forth between Clearwater, Florida, and Los Angeles (with an extended stint in Tijuana for good measure). Laura lived alone and raised herself for long periods of time, but don’t worry! Her mom’s alcoholic boyfriend was always nearby to supervise. She also lost family members to horrific tragedies, started drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes when she was eleven years old, and dropped out of school when she was fifteen, all the while completely obsessed with and scarred by her severe acne condition. This is not a sad story. There is Jell-O wrestling. There is an abnormal amount of dancing. There is information about whether you can drink gallons of sangria while taking unregulated Accutane acquired in Mexico. But mostly there is love, and ultimately there is redemption. Laura explores her trauma through anecdotes riddled with grit and humor, proving that in the face of unspeakable tragedy, it is possible to find success, love, and self-acceptance, zits and all.

Replanted

Author : George Maliekal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736868416
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Replanted written by George Maliekal and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George's idyllic life in his maternal grandmother's ancestral home in South India takes a sudden turn as his family sets out to America in 1969. There, they establish new roots in the East Village neighborhood of Chicago. The universal experience of navigating from childhood into adolescence is wrought with even more emotion for George as he attempts to do so as a young immigrant. His cherished memories with family, school, and friends resonate from a time when everyday was unique.

The Cowherd's Son

Author : Rajiv Mohabir
Publisher : Kundiman Prize
ISBN 13 : 9781936797967
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book The Cowherd's Son written by Rajiv Mohabir and published by Kundiman Prize. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadening the scope of his award-winning debut to consider the wider Indo-Caribbean community in migration across the Americas and Europe, Rajiv Mohabir uses his queer and mixed-caste identities as grace notes to charm alienation into silence. Mohabir's inheritance of myths, folk tales, and multilingual translations make a palimpsest of histories that bleed into one another. A descendant of indentureship survivors, the poet-narrator creates an allegorical chronicle of dislocations and relocations, linking India, Guyana, Trinidad, New York, Orlando, Toronto, and Honolulu, combining the amplitude of mythology with direct witness and sensual reckoning, all the while seeking joy in testimony. Praise for Rajiv Mohabir's previous book: "In his excellent debut, Mohabir exposes desire and inner turmoil through the measured incantations of a queer, Indian-American voice that refuses the burdens of a homophobic and racist world. He eloquently describes how the brown body survives, clinging vigilantly to longing, lust, and love: 'I mean to say / I am still -- this trembling breath of a comma, this coincidental object of your want.' . . . Mohabir illuminates his own wounds, and as the reader watches him dresses and stitches those wounds, 'A queer flutter knocks about your ribs.'" -- Publishers Weekly

Cutlish

Author : Rajiv Mohabir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945588884
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book Cutlish written by Rajiv Mohabir and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rajiv Mohabir's Cutlish uses history to interrogate the word "home" and all that it might mean to those who thrive in spite of homophobia, stereotype, and xenophobia. These poems are grounded in definite time and space in a voice that refuses to be silenced, "They are vexed you survive; that you/rise up from the pavement..." But what I love most is read a poet as disciplined and committed as Mohabir as he transforms and reinvents himself in tone, in subject, and in line: "Let's get one thing queer-I'm no Sabu-like sidekick,/I'm the main drag. Ram Ram in a sari; salaam//on the street. I don't speak Hindu, Paki, or Indian,/can't control minds, have no psychic powers." Jericho Brown Cutlish, Rajiv Mohabir's stunning new collection, asks urgent questions about queer identities, diaspora and silence. Deeply grounded in 1838, the year the first ships brought indentured servants from India to Guyana, Cutlish reckons with the relationship between language and violence. These poems challenge the colonizer's English through Creole, Sanskrit, Hindi, Hindustani and Chutney songs, dazzling us at every turn: "May each face who ever said, Speak English / find their own tongue fettered and split, / my mixed blood blackening their faces." The book's title evokes the violence of a cutlass, and everywhere here we see language as knife and blade but also as solace. Cutlish is a luminous, beautiful book. Rajiv Mohabir is one of the most important poets writing today. --Nicole Cooley"--

The Taxidermist's Cut

Author : Rajiv Mohabir
Publisher : Four Way Books Intro Prize in
ISBN 13 : 9781935536727
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Taxidermist's Cut written by Rajiv Mohabir and published by Four Way Books Intro Prize in. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survival guide that shows how bigotry and redemption are mapped on the psyche and on the body