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Author:
Felicia Luna Lemus
Publisher:
Akashic Books
Date:
November 3, 2020
In concise and distilled prose, Lemus presents a collection of still lifes, landscapes, and portraits of a challenging year that threatened all she loved most. Particulate Matter is the story of a year in Felicia Luna Lemus's marriage when the world turned upside down. It's set in Los Angeles, and it's about love and crisis, loss and grief, the city and the ocean, ancestral ghosts and history haunting.
What The Reviewers Say
It is important that Particulate Matter is about a queer marriage, not because of its politics, which are not discussed, but because it just is. It exists in a tender and desperate way, both within and because of another (politicized) reality of present-day America: environmental damage and toxicity.
... it's more than just a cautionary tale about how climate change and its manmade causes have affected the life of the author. It's a love story that's profoundly rooted in the emotional, geographical, and sociopolitical terrain of today.
In this totally unique micro-memoir, Lemus returns for an unforgettable meditation on her experiences.
