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Author:
Sejal Shah
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Date:
June 1, 2020
An Indian American writer from the Gujarati diaspora reflects on what it means to make oneself visible and legible through writing in a country that struggles with race and maps her identity as an American, South Asian American, writer of color, and feminist.
What The Reviewers Say
Shah brings important, refreshing, and depressing observations about what it means to have dark skin and an 'exotic' name, when the only country you've ever lived in is America.
Through incorporating poetry and fiction, moving from place to place, and switching among first, second and third points of view, Shah has produced a work as original and distinctive as she is...She shows what’s possible when we don’t subscribe to personal or creative restrictions..
What we witness in these pages is Shah making a place for herself in the world, for the life she lives and the creative fulfillment she pursues.
... illuminating essays.
