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When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better”—someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing, and America’s casual racism, sexism, and homophobia. In this book-length essay, the problem of how to account for one's life comes to the fore—sliding unpredictably between memory, speculation, self-criticism, and art criticism, Low seeks answers that she knows she won't find. Attempting to reconcile her desires with her radical politics, she asks: do our quests to fulfill our deepest wishes propel us forward, or keep us trapped in the rubble of our deteriorating world?

ISBN-13: 9781566895514

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Publication Date: 08-13-2019

Pages: 168

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)

Series: Emily Books

Trisha Low is the author of The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions, 2013). She earned a BA at the Universityof Pennsylvania and an MA in Performance Studies at New York University. She lives in the East Bay.