FEMINIST PRESS CATALOG FALL 2020–SPRING 2021 CONTENTS

2 CONTACT INFORMATION Mission & Vision Statements EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER Jamia Wilson [email protected] 4 Fall 2020 Titles SENIOR EDITOR & FOREIGN RIGHTS MANAGER Lauren Rosemary Hook [email protected] 11 SENIOR SALES, MARKETING & PUBLICITY MANAGER Spring 2021 Titles Jisu Kim [email protected] 18 Amethyst Editions 21 Backlist Highlights 31 Rights & Permissions

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FP seeks to champion intersectional and nuanced works that spark much-needed dialogue and move the feminist conversation forward. Current editorial initiatives include the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, created to highlight debut work by women and nonbinary writers of color, and Amethyst Editions, a queer imprint founded by Michelle Tea. MISSION

The Feminist Press publishes books that We are seeking political and cultural activist ignite movements and social transformation. nonfiction that furthers our understanding of Celebrating our legacy, we lift up insurgent intersectional feminism. We gravitate toward and marginalized voices from around the voice- and vision-driven stories as well as genre- world to build a more just future. defying texts. Other topics of interest include feminist dystopia, environmental justice, and VISION immigration stories. We do not publish poetry, To create a world where everyone dramatic works, doctoral dissertations, or recognizes themselves in a book. literary criticism.

2 MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS 3 I HAD A MISCARRIAGE GRIEVING A Memoir, A Movement Dispatches from a Wounded Country Jessica Zucker Cristina Rivera Garza Foreword by Latham Thomas Translated by Sarah Booker

Sixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psy- Grieving is Cristina Rivera Garza’s hybrid collec-

chologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, tion of short crónicas,Can writing, injournalism, fact, be something and that personal “ Grieving is a major reckoning with violence in contemporary acts against fear or terror? Mexico, and its relevance, like the causes of the crisis, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mex- extends far beyond the border. A brilliant work.” —RUBÉN MARTÍNEZ “ A probing meditation on the violence being waged on the poor, in reproductive and maternal mental health, was ico. Drawing togethermarginalized, overlooked,horror and theory downtrodden andin Mexico historical and the borderlands. Cristina Rivera Garza dissects the misnamed drug war, rendered corporeal, no longer just theoretical. analysis, she outlinesthe epidemic ofhow femicides neoliberalism,and misogyny, the capitalistic wrecking corrup - ball, the Gadarene charge of climate change, and the scourge of pandemic. At once a gorgeous elegy, a clarion call to action, and a She now had a changed perspective on her life’s tion, and drug trafficking—culminatingrevindication of the human spirit.” in the mis- work, her patients’ pain, and the crucial need for named “war on —JOHNdrugs”—has WASHINGTON, The Dispossessedshaped her country. “ Laying bare the foundations of state violence and collective trauma a zeitgeist shift. Navigating this nascent transition Working from andwhile alsoagainst imploring its readersthis to imagine political the world we wantcontext, to live in, Grieving is the perfect book to accompany us through these amid her own grief became a catalyst for Jessica Rivera Garza positsuncertain thattimes.” collective grief is an act —ROSA ALCALÁ, Undocumentaries to bring voice to this ubiquitous experience. She of resistance against state violence, and that writ- “ A bold, luminous collection from Mexico’s most impressive essayist embarked on a mission to upend the strident tri- ing is a powerfuland mode writer.” of seeking social justice. —LINA MERUANE, Seeing Red fecta of silence, shame, and stigma that surrounds CRISTINA RIVERA “GARZA Sarah Booker’s is translation an recreatesaward-winning the urgency of Rivera Garza’s writer, reproductive loss—and the result is her striking prose with exceptional vitality.” poet, translator,—IDRA and NOVEY, critic. Those Who KnewThe recipient of the memoir meets manifesto. Roger Caillois and the Anna Seghers Prizes, she Drawing from her psychological expertise and her is the only two-time winner of the Sor Juana Inés

ISBN 978-1-936932-93-1 $16.95 US work as the creator of the #IHadaMiscarriage cam- de la Cruz Prize.THE She FEMINIST is PRESScurrently a distinguished AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK paign, I Had a Miscarriage is a heart-wrenching, professor of HispanicFEMINISTPRESS.ORG studies at the University of thought-provoking book—an urgent reminder of Houston. “There are lessons on grief for all of us in the power of speaking openly and unapologetically Zucker’s beautiful pages. A must read.” SARAH BOOKER is a Spanish-to-English translator “A compelling work of social criticism about the complexities of our lives. —LORI GOTTLIEB and PhD candidate at the University of North that speaks to a desperate time.” JESSICA ZUCKER is a clinical psychologist who spe- Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her translations have —KIRKUS REVIEWS cializes in women’s reproductive and maternal appeared in the Paris Review, Asymptote, and the mental health. In 2014 Zucker launched the viral Brooklyn Rail, among others. #IHadaMiscarriage campaign in her first New York Times piece. Her writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, and TIME, and she has been featured on NPR, Good Morning America, and CNN. She lives in Los Angeles.

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4 FALL 2020 FALL 2020 5 A WORLD BETWEEN WE TOO Emily Hashimoto Essays on Sex Work and Survival Edited by Natalie West, with Tina Horn Foreword by Selena the Stripper

In 2004 college students Eleanor Suzuki and This collection of narrative essays by sex workers

“ A celebration of identity, queer love, messy families, and the ferocity of want. I love this book’s expansive Leena Shah meet in an elevator. Both girls are presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there’s never heart, nuance, and radiant joy.” hashimoto —T KIRA MADDEN on the brink of adulthood, each full of possibility been a better time to fight for justice. Respond-

“Smart, honest, compassionate, emily and big ideas, and they fall into a brief whirlwind ing to the resurgence of the #MeToo movement and tender, A World Between is a novel of love and liberation.”

—LISA KO romance. Years later, Eleanor and Leena col- in 2017, sex workers from across the industry— A WORLD BETWEEN “A sweet and funny take on love and growing up: imagine a classic rom-com, if the lead lide on the streets of San Francisco—grown and hookers and prostitutes, strippers and dancers, actors were two queer Asian women.” —ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN changed, and each separately partnered—and find porn stars, cam models, Dommes and subs alike—

“A generational breakthrough.” —SARAH SCHULMAN themselves, once again, irresistibly pulled back complicate narratives of sexual harassment and together. violence, and expand conversations often limited n 2004 college students Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah meet in an elevator. On the brink to normative workplaces. I of adulthood, both full of possibility and big ideas, they fall into a whirlwind romance. Years Emily Hashimoto’s debut novel perfectly captures later, Eleanor and Leena collide on the streets of San Francisco, and the two find themselves irre - the wonder and confusion of growing up in millen- Writing across topics such as homelessness, moth- sistibly pulled back together. A World Between follows two women as they navigate family, female friendship, and their own nial America. In sparkling prose, she follows two erhood, and toxic masculinity, We Too gives voice fraught history—unfolding into a new kind of love story for a millennial, immigrant America. immigrant women as they navigate family, female to the fight for agency and accountability across friendship, and their own fraught history. sex industries. With contributions by leading voices ISBN 978-1-936932-95-5 $17.95 US in the movement such as Melissa Gira Grant, THE FEMINIST PRESS AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK EMILY HASHIMOTO is a queer writer of color from the FEMINISTPRESS.ORG Ceyenne Doroshow, Audacia Ray, femi babylon, suburbs of New Jersey. Her non­fiction writing has April Flores, and Yin Q, this anthology explores sex appeared in the Rumpus and Bitch magazine. She work as work, and sex workers as laboring subjects A_World_Between_full_cover.indd 1 6/23/20 10:05 AM lives in New York City. in need of respect—not rescue. “A sweetly poignant look at the “A welcome antidote to the reductive transformative power of young love.” NATALIE WEST is a Los Angeles–based professional narratives about sex worker —O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE Dominatrix. Her writing on sex work, kink, and experiences we too often hear.” queer culture can be found in Salon, Autostraddle, —MELISSA FEBOS and Kink Academy.

TINA HORN hosts and produces the kink podcast Why Are People into That?! She is based in Brooklyn.

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6 FALL 2020 FALL 2020 7 THE ECHOING IDA COLLECTION THE LIVING IS EASY Edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, and Janna A. Zinzi Dorothy West Foreword by Michelle Duster Foreword by Morgan Jerkins Afterword by Adelaide M. Cromwell

The Black women and nonbinary writers of the This first novel by Dorothy West was one of only a Echoing Ida collective harness the power of media handful to be published by Black women during for justice. Aiming to move the needle on the most the 1940s. The Living Is Easy tells the story of pressing issues of our time, Echoing Ida nurtures Cleo Judson, daughter of Southern sharecroppers, A cult classic by one of DOROTHY a community of Black writers who—like their fore- determined to integratethe into Harlem Boston’s Renaissance’s Black elite. WEST youngest members. mother Ida B. Wells-Barnett—believe the “way Married to the “Black Banana King” Bart Judson, The Living Is Easy he Living Is Easy, Dorothy West’s first novel and to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon Cleo maneuvers herone three of only a handfulsisters to be publishedand bytheir Black chil- T women in the forties, tells the story of Cleo Judson, them.” dren—but not theirdaughter ofhusbands—into Southern sharecroppers, who is obsessivelyliving with determined to integrate herself and her daughter, Judy, her, attempting tointo re-create Boston’s Black elite. her Married original to the “Black family Banana in a In this anthology, the best of the Echoing Ida King” Bart Judson, Cleo meanwhile maneuvers her three sisters and their children—but not their husbands—into Bostonian mansion.living with her, attempting to re-create her original family collective’s writing is gathered for the first time, in a newly rented ten-room mansion. Witty, satirical, and razor-sharp in its depiction of race including pieces addressing state violence, media DOROTHY WEST (1907–1998)and class in early twentieth-century shared Boston, the this “pow coveted- erful work” (Essence) features a new foreword by author and culture, sexuality, motherhood, and more. Opportunity short-storyMorgan Jerkins. prize with Zora Neale Hur- Featuring a foreword by Michelle Duster, activist ston in 1927 and later moved to New York, where THE and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, she became the youngest of the writers associated these essays imagine a Black, gender-expansive, with the Harlem Renaissance. Also the author of

ISBN 978-1-936932-97-9 $19.95 US IS and liberated future. The Wedding, she lived on Martha’s Vineyard until Living THE FEMINIST PRESS A Novel AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK FEMINISTPRESS.ORG Easy her death. WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MORGAN JERKINS CYNTHIA R. GREENLEE is a writer, editor, and historian of the African American experience. She is a for- mer senior editor at Rewire.News. KEMI ALABI is a “A powerful work.” poet, teaching artist, and cultural strategy director —ESSENCE of Forward Together. JANNA A. ZINZI is a communica- tions strategist, writer, and performer.

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8 FALL 2020 FALL 2020 9 FAULT LINES THIS IS HOW WE COME BACK STRONGER A Memoir Feminist Writers on Turning Crisis into Change Meena Alexander Edited by the Feminist Book Society Preface by Ng˜ug˜ı wa Thiong’o Introduction by Jamia Wilson Afterword by Gaiutra Bahadur

Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Fault Lines follows In essays, short fiction, poetry, and more, writers fault lines one woman’s evolution as a writer at home—and from the United States and the United Kingdom in exile—across continents and cultures. Meena respond to the personal and the political in the This Alexander was born into a privileged childhood in time of pandemic. Marking the one-year anni- An acclaimed Indian poet explores Feminist India and grew into a turbulent adolescence in the versary of lockdown in the US and the UK, these is writing, memory, and place in this writers classic postcolonial memoir. Sudan, before moving to England and then New pieces consider where we go from here—and on turning “ Meena Alexander’s writing is imbued with a poetic grace how crisis into shot through with an inner violence, like a shimmering piece York City. With poetic insight and devastating hon- remind us that, despite it all, we are not alone. of two-toned silk.” change —MS. magazine esty, Alexander explores how trauma and recovery “Evocative and moving.” This Is How We Come Back Stronger is an essential we —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY shaped the entire landscape of her memory: of her a memoir “ In Fault Lines, Meena Alexander tells us—and herself—that collection for our times, featuring contributions ‘we need a speech that acknowledges rage.’ Now more than family, her writing process, and her very self. ever, we need her voice.” from Glory Edim, Fatima Bhutto, Layla Saad, Juliet come —VIDHU AGGARWAL, author of The Trouble with Humpadori

“ One of the most important literary voices in South Asian This new edition, published on the two-year anni- Jacques, Kate Mosse, Michelle Tea, Lisa Taddeo, American writing and American letters broadly writ, Meena back Alexander is a writer who sews her dislocations together into a place where all are welcome, held by her elegant, lyrical prose.” versary of Alexander’s passing in 2018, features a Akasha Hull, Amelia Abraham, Virgie Tovar, and —RAJIV MOHABIR, author of The Cowherd’s Son commemorative afterword celebrating her legacy. more. It provides both an intimate, immediate look “ Meena Alexander’s acute poetic sensibility makes this memoir stronger. a joy to read.” at life during lockdown—amid the political turmoil —BAPSI SIDHWA, author of Cracking India MEENA ALEXANDER (1951–2018) was an acclaimed Edited by the and everyday insecurity—as well as a reflection on Feminist Book Society poet, scholar, teacher, and advocate for global what has changed. Ten percent of every book sold ISBN 978-1-936932-99-3 $18.95 US meena alexander gender justice. She was a distinguished professor THE FEMINIST PRESS Preface by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK With a new afterword by Gaiutra Bahadur will be donated to the Third Wave Fund to support FEMINISTPRESS.ORG of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Grad- youth-led gender justice activism. uate Center. “Evocative and moving.” THE FEMINIST BOOK SOCIETY is a UK-based lit- —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY erary organization of writers and publishing professionals.

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10 FALL 2020 SPRING 2021 11 BLACK BOX TASTES LIKE WAR The Memoir That Sparked Japan’s #MeToo Movement A Memoir Shiori Ito Grace M. Cho Translated by Allison Markin Powell

In 2015 an aspiring young journalist named Shiori Grace M. Cho, the daughter of a white American Ito charged prominent reporter Noriyuki Yamagu- merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he chi with rape. After meeting up for drinks and met abroad, grew up in a xenophobic small town networking, Ito remembers regaining conscious- during the Cold War, where identity was polit- ness in a hotel room while being assaulted. But icized by everyday details—language, cultural when she went to the police, Ito was told that references, memories, and food. When Grace was her case was a “black box”—untouchable and fifteen, her dynamic mother experienced the onset unprosecutable. of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life. Black Box is a riveting, sobering memoir that chronicles one woman’s struggle for justice, call- Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, ing for changes to an industry—and in society Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s at large—to ensure that future victims of sexual search through intimate and global history for the assault can come forward without being silenced roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. In her mother’s and humiliated. With careful and quiet fury, Black final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her Box recounts a broken system of repression and parent’s childhood in order to invite the past into violence—but it also heralds the beginning of a the present, and through careful listening over new solidarity movement seeking a more equitable these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the path toward justice. things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her—but also the things that kept her “Ms. Ito’s story is a stark example of how SHIORI ITO is a freelance journalist who contributes alive. sexual assault remains a subject to be news footage and documentaries to the Econ- avoided in Japan, where few women report omist, Al Jazeera, Reuters, and other primarily GRACE M. CHO is the author of Haunting the Korean rape to the police and when they do, non-Japanese media outlets. She was named one Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War. their complaints rarely result in arrests or of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people Her writing has appeared in journals such as the prosecution.” in 2020. New Inquiry, Poem Memoir Story, Gastronomica, —NEW YORK TIMES and Feminist Studies. She is associate professor ALLISON MARKIN POWELL has been awarded grants of sociology and anthropology at the College of from English PEN and the NEA, and the 2020 Staten Island, CUNY. PEN America Translation Prize. She is based in New York.

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12 SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 13 WE ARE BRIDGES SKYE PAPERS WINNER A Memoir The Louise Meriwether Jamika Ajalon Cassandra Lane First Book Prize

When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at Twentysomething and restless, Skye flits between thirty-seven, the knowledge sends her on a poi- cities and stagnant relationships until she meets gnant exploration of memory to prepare for her Scottie, a disarming and disheveled British trav- entry into motherhood. She moves between the eler, and Pieces, an enigmatic artist living in New twentieth-century rural South and present-day York. As kindred spirits—Black, punk, whimsical, Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her revolutionary—the three fall in together, leading great-grandparents Mary and Burt Bridges, before Skye on an unlikely adventure across the Atlan- and after Burt is lynched at the hands of vengeful tic. They live a glorious, subterranean existence in white men in his Southern town. 1990s London until it is jeopardized by the rise of CCTV and policing. We Are Bridges is lyrical memoir of late mother- hood that reconstructs the lost history of a Black In fluid and unrelenting prose, Jamika Ajalon’s American family, and turns to creative nonfiction debut novel explores youth, poetry, and what to reclaim a family history from violent erasure, so it means to come terms with queerness. Skye that a mother can gift her child with an ancestral Papers is an imaginative, episodic group portrait blueprint for their future. Haunting and poetic, of a transatlantic art scene spearheaded by people this debut traces the strange fruit borne from the of color—and of the fraught, dystopian reality of roots of personal loss in one Black family—and increasing state surveillance. considers how to take back one’s American story. JAMIKA AJALON is an author and interdisciplinary “Lane’s compelling voice couldn’t be more CASSANDRA LANE’s stories have appeared in the New artist who works with different mediums inde- timely.” York Times’ Conception series, the Times-Picayune, pendently, but also in multiple fusions—incorpo- —BRIDGETT M. DAVIS Atlanta Journal Constitution, Writers Resist, and rating written and spoken text, sound/music, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Los Angeles. visuals. Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in various publications internationally.

Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea.

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14 SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 15 ALEJANDRIA’S STORY

ALEJANDRIA FIGHTS BACK! / ¡LA LUCHA DE ALEJANDRIA! If I drew you a map, I would fill Welcome to Parkwood! it with people. Ms. Beatrice for Leticia Hernández-Linares and The Rise-Home Stories Project , , , the bookstore, Ms. Alicia and I m Ale, and this is where I m from. Home isn t just our apartment. her big smile for the flower Home is the entire neighborhood. Parkwood residents come from stand, and Mr. Salgado waving Illustrated by Robert Liu-Trujillo different parts of the world, but these blocks connect us. Mami from his corner store. I get and my grandmother, Tita, are from Nicaragua, and I was born ideas for my drawings when I right here. ride my bike. Mr. Amir once put one of my drawings up on the wall of his shop.

For nine-year-old Alejandria, home isn’t just the apartment she shares with Mami and her abuela, Tita, but rather the whole neighborhood. Home is the bakery where Ms. Beatrice makes yummy picos; the sidewalk where Ms. Alicia sells flowers with her little dog, Duende; and the corner store with friendly Mr. Amir. ALEJANDRIA’S STORY But lately the city has been changing, and rent 4 JUST CITIES NARRATIVE SHIFT PROJECT Walking home, I heard my name. It was Julian. prices are going up. Many people in el barrio He was outside his apartment with his dad, with boxes. are leaving because they can no longer afford their homes, and For Sale signs are popping up everywhere. Then the worst thing happens: Mami receives a letter saying they’ll have to move out

,,This was not a good, sign.,, too. Alejandria knows it isn’t fair, but she’s not Hey Julian, what s up? I asked. ,, ,, about to give up and leave. Join Alejandria as she We have to move.,, He frowned with his whole face. The landlord gave my ,, brings her community together to fight and save dad some papers that said we have to. I wondered who owned our apartment, their neighborhood from gentrification! and if this could ever happen to me. Walking down the street was turning into a video game. You had to dodge LETICIA HERNÁNDEZ-LINARES is an educator, inter- the construction, the moving trucks, and the For Sale signs to stay safe. I felt sad that Julian got zapped disciplinary artist, and author of the poetry col- in the game. lection Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl. Her work appears in collections and journals such ALEJANDRIA’S STORY as Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century 5 JUST CITIES NARRATIVE SHIFT PROJECT ,, The night before the meeting, I told Tita I felt scared. This community is my home. Our families and neighbors USA, Street Art San Francisco, Huizache, and ,, , ,, ,, should be able to stay together. I hope you can make a law That s natural, she said, Leading means putting yourself,, out ,, Pilgrimage. there, but you are never too young to be a leader. about that. When I finished, Mami was smiling. The next day, city hall was packed. I had major hormiguitas, more like giant ants, in my belly, but I signed up to comment. ,, ,, THE RISE-HOME STORIES PROJECT is an innovative col- Alejandria Garca. It was my turn My face felt like a bright red tomato. As I walked to ,the microphone, and then, laboration between multimedia storytellers and I noticed Mami in the crowd. I didn t know what to think. I started to forget what I was going to say, so I held up my social justice advocates from several grassroots drawing. ,, , My name is Alejandria. I m nine years old. I wanted to show organizations who work at the nexus of housing, you, not just tell you, that my,, home is not just our building, but our whole neighborhood. land, and racial justice in the US.

ROBERT LIU-TRUJILLO is an author and illustrator based in the Bay Area. He is the author of several books, including Furqan’s First Flat Top.

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6 JUST CITIES NARRATIVE SHIFT PROJECT 16 SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 17 “Gritty, sexy, very queer— THE NOT WIVES up-all-night compelling.” AMETHYST EDITIONS —ANDREA LAWLOR A novel of sex-positive awakening he Not Wives traces the lives of TthreeCarley women as they navigate Moore the and burgeoning political resistance, Occupy Wall Street movement and Founded by Michelle Tea set in Occupy-era New York City. one another. Stevie is a nontenured professor and mom in the middle of a divorce; her best friend Mel is a “ A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, bartender, torn between her long- and human frailty.” term girlfriend“A and provocative a desire to explore and well-told story about chosen community, friendship,

© AMY© TOUCHETTE —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) polyamory; and Johanna is a homeless Amethyst Editions is an imprint founded by Michelle Tea teenagertryingtofindherwayinthe “ A terrificliterarynovelaboutwhatitmeanstobelongtoyourselfwhile world, who bears shared witness to trying to be a part of something bigger.” a tragedy thatand interlaces herhuman life with frailty.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) —INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW Stevie’s. “ The Not Wives is not just for not wives—it’s for all of us struggling championing emerging queer writers who complicate CARLEY MOORE is the author of In the midst of economic collapse and with how to be human amid the ongoing clamor and bewilderment of the essay collection 16 Pills, the poetry twenty-first-centurylife.” classconflict,late-nighthookupsand chapbook Portal Poem, and the young —LAURA SIMS complicatedThe exes, these charactersNot Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the adult novel The Stalker Chronicles. Her piece together a new American the conversation around LGBTQ+ experiences beyond a work has appeared in the American “ Carley Moore has created a landscape of achingly authentic female lives identity of resistance—against the Poetry Review, Brainchild, the Brooklyn that we rarely see given such literary treatment. A compulsively readable loomingshadowoffinancialprecarity, Rail, the Journal of Popular Culture, and novel with deep roots in our gorgeous, messed-up world.” thegentrificationOccupyofNewYork,andthe  Wall Street movement and one another: Stevie is a non­ other publications. She is a clinical —MICHELLE TEA traditional role of wife. professor of writing and contemporary coming-out narrative. culture and creative production in “ I was in dire need of a queer, sex-positive mom in literature—and then the Global Liberal Studies Program the gift of The Not Wives showed up. I couldn’t put this extraordinary book down.” tenured professor and mom in the middle of a divorce; her best at New York University and a senior associate at Bard College’s Institute —LYNN MELNICK for Writing and Thinking. She lives in “ With seemingly effortless prose, Carley Moore paints a rich portrait of New York City. threedeeplycompellingwomennavigatingthepolaritiesandconfining friend Mel is a bartender, torn between her long-term girlfriend and norms of modern-day life.” —ETAF RUM

ISBN 978-1-936932-68-9 $17.95 US a desire to explore polyamory; and Johanna is a homeless teenager

“A story of migration, queerness, brokenness, and love, this book FIEBRE TROPICAL trying to find her way in the world, who bears shared witness to a is absolute music to my ears.” —INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS DELGADO JULIANA

“ Lit by neon Miami sunsets and the hot glow of the Christian LOPERA prooted from Bogotá, tragedy that interlaces her life with Stevie’s. apocalypse, Fiebre Tropical is a coming-of-age tale, a coming- UColombia,A Novel into an ant-infested out tale, a migration tale we’ve never read and badly need.” Miami townhouse, fifteen-year- —MICHELLE TEA, author of Against Memoir old Francisca is miserable in her

FIEBRE TROPICAL strangeJuli new city. DelgadoHer alienation Lopera “ ¡Ay Dios mío! This book’s got tumbao. Juliana Delgado Lopera’s eye for grows when her mother and detail is fierce, and this novel is easy to devour.” grandmother are swept up into —JOSEPH CASSARA, author of The House of Impossible Beauties $17.95 • 978-1-936932-68-9 • 368 pages • Rights: US & Canada an evangelicalFinalist church—replete for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction! “ Fiebre Tropical is a triumph, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” with Christian salsa and baptisms —DANIEL HANDLER, author of Bottle Grove for the dead—that meets in the ballroom of their local Hyatt Hotel. “ Delgado Lopera’s riveting new book is propelled as much by its JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA is “Ebullient and assertive. . . . 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18 AMETHYST EDITIONS AMETHYST EDITIONS 19 AGAINST MEMOIR THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms A Memoir Michelle Tea Melissa Valentine Winner of the 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay! “A poignant, painful, and gorgeous memoir.” Against Memoir is Michelle Tea’s first collection of essays, delivered with her signature candor and dark humor. —ALICIA GARZA

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20 AMETHYST EDITIONS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 21 PARENTING FOR LIBERATION APSARA ENGINE TRINA GREENE BROWN PARENTING FOR LIBERATION peaking directly to parents S raising Black children in a Bishakh Som worldA of police Guide brutality, racialized for Raising Black Children violence, and disenfranchisement, Parenting for Liberation A guide for guardians combines powerfulTrina storytelling withGreene Brown of Black children, practical exercises, encouraging including firsthand accounts, readers to imagine parenting methods rooted in liberation practical guidance, and rather than fear. “Som’s debut heralds the rise of new talent to watch.” exercises for empowered This guide fills a critical gap in and liberated currently“Anyone available resources forcurious about how to walk with a child through —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) parenting methods. parenting. Pairing personal stories from the Parenting for Liberation TRINA GREENE BROWN is the podcast tumultuouswith open-ended prompts times needs to read this book now.” creator of Parenting for Liberation, a virtual platform launched in 2016 designed to inspire reflection featuring blogs and podcasts that and creativity, this book provides By turns fantastical and familiar, this graphic short story aim to connect, inspire, and uplift insight for those seeking to —DANI McCLAIN Black parents. An activist and mother dismantle harmful narratives of two, she is also a member of the “Trina Greene Brown’s Parenting for Liberation allows all of us to raise Black children about Black families, initiate Resonance Network and the Move to to be their most liberated selves, and ultimately helps us be more free too.” collection is immersed in questions of gender, the body, End Violence. With an ethos rooted difficult conversations on social in community and collaboration, —MIA BIRDSONG, author of How We Show Up: issues with their children, and find Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community she cultivates cross-organizational community with other parents and existential conformity. partnerships aimed at building an Speaking directly to parents raising Black children in a who share their struggle. inclusive gender and racial justice “As a ‘ woke ’ Black mom, I’ve been on a never-ending quest to find a book movement. She was recently named that would enable me to shift my parenting lens from one based on trauma to the 2017 Black Feminist Rising by world of racialized violence, this guidebook combines Black Women’s Blueprint and an one of freedom and joy. Trina Greene Brown has written that book!” Inspirational Parent in 2018 by —A. ROCHAUN MEADOWS-FERNANDEZ, CADRE. Brown has contributed to writer for “On Parenting,” Washington Post “On Parenting” for the Washington powerful storytelling with practical exercises, encouraging Post, as well as two anthologies on the intersection of motherhood and activism. ISBN 978-1-936932-84-9 $19.95 US readers to imagine methods of parenting rooted in libera- THE FEMINIST PRESS AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Author photograph by Jayia Kim FEMINISTPRESS.ORG Cover art and photograph collage by Amir Khadar tion rather than fear.

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“Brutal! Very intense.” Translated by Frances Riddle The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution—MARIANA ENRÍQUEZ, author of Things We Lost in the Fire

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n lucid and compelling prose, Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero sheds light on the grotesque real- beauty of simple, concrete language—not a word feels Iities of the home—family, coming-of-age, religion, and class struggle. A family’s maids witness a horrible cycle out of place.” “The images inside of this book weaken the strongholdof abuse, a girl is auctioned that off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their —KIRKUS REVIEWS gatekeepers to history hold over our lives.” spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, the characters in these stories spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas. —CHARLENENamed oneCARRUTHERS of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Español, Cockfight explores the Thirteen stories explore domestic horrors and everyday power of the home to both create and destroy those within it. translated by Frances Riddle violence, providing an intimate and unflinching portrait of Spanning nearly three thousand years of history—from twenty-first-century Latin America. ISBN 978-1-936932-82-5 $15.95 US the ancient Secession of the Plebs to theTHE FEMINIST2017 PRESS protests AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK FEMINISTPRESS.ORG of the Confederate Soldiers Monument in Durham, from

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22 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 23 YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN FAT HOW MAMAS LOVE THEIR BABIES Virgie Tovar HOW Juniper Fitzgerald Over 8,000 copies sold! HOW MAMAS LOVE THEIR BABIES MAMAS Illustrated by Elise Peterson Virgie Tovar’s manifesto isn’t about body positivity—it’s calling for a fat LOVE Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for their revolution. THEIR children, this picture book is the first to depict a sex-worker BABIES parent. It provides an expanded notion of working mothers WRITTEN BY ILLUSTRATED BY Juniper Fitzgerald Elise Peterson and challenges the idea that only some jobs result in good ISBN 978-193693-200-9 $16.95

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KAMALA Introduction by KATE SCHATZ | With illustrations by SUKI BOYNTON Illustrated by Suki Boynton Over 9,000 copies sold! What might we dream of after reading these tales?

In Kamala, the second volume in the Feminist Folktales series, stories Introductions by Gayle Forman, Kate Schatz, Daniel José Older, from countries such as India, Peru, China, and Ireland follow clever, A candid and encouraging guidebook about creating art in times of politioutspoken- heroines—demonstrating how the courage and power of women hold our world together. and Renée Watson cal upheaval, censorship, and oppression. “Who stole these fierce, bawdy stories from the mouths of mothers and transformed the strong girls into damsels in distress? Who cast the spell . . . and how do we break it? Bringing readers tales from China, Sudan, Norway, Peru, and beyond, this With books like this, obviously!” —Kate Schatz, Rad American Women A–Z VOL. II best-selling four-volume series reminds us that girls and women every- isbn 978-155861-940-1 $14.95 Us where have been the heroes of their own stories for centuries.

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THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION HIS OWN WHERE Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, June Jordan and Robin M. Boylorn Introduction by Sapphire

Unapologetic and necessary, this collection of pop culture criticism takes First published in 1971, His Own Where gained both praise and notori- on beauty parlor politics, prison abolition, and Rihanna. The Crunk Fem- ety for being written entirely in Black Vernacular English. Fifteen-year-old inist Collective’s blog, with an annual readership of nearly one million, Buddy meets Angela, whose family life is also spinning out of control. The fosters dialogue for critical homegirls stuck between loving hip hop and two find a home in one another, learning to love while navigating Brooklyn “ratchet culture” while hating patriarchy and sexism. and adolescence.

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“HIGH VOLTAGE—FULL OF YOUTH, DETERMINATION, AND POWER.”—EMILY BAZELON “I’m a big Cristy C. Road fan. Spit and Passion is

THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT a graphic delight, and the depiction of Cristy C. r oad SPIT AND PASSION awkward youth is spot-on, weird, and familiar. -- Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home “Cristy C. Road is the Jack Kerouac of the young queer generation. Cristy C. Road Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future She’s as brilliant a writer as she is an illustrator.” —-- kate bornstein, author of A Queer and Pleasant Danger

t its core, Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when Edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. Sud- A denly, you belong. In this punk graphic novel, twelve-year-old Cristy is struggling to balance At twelve years old, Cristy C. Road is trying to balance the values of a Cuban Catholic family with her newfound queer identity, and begins a chronic obses- sion with the punk band Green Day. In this stunning graphic memoir, Road renders the clash between her rich inner world of fantasy and the numbing sub- THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT urban conformity she is surrounded by. She finds solace in the closet—where tradition in a Cuban Catholic family with her newfound queer identity, and Cutting-edge voices including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock,she lets her deepand excitement about punk rock foment and, in that angst and FIFTY-SEVEN VISIONS OF A WILDLY BETTER FUTURE euphoria, finds a path to self-acceptance.

Cristy C. road has reached cult status for work Sheila Heti invite us to imagine the world we want. Featuring essays,that captures the beauty of the imperfect. Her career she begins a chronic obsession with the punk band Green Day. began with Greenzine, a punk rock zine, which she made for ten years. She has since published Indestruc- tible, an illustrated novel about high school; Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick, a postcard book; and Bad Habits, a love story about self-destruction and healing. speculative fiction, interviews, and art, The Feminist Utopia ProjectShe has alsochal illustrated countless- album covers, book jackets, and political organization propaganda. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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24 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 25 richar D n the fall of 1991, Anita Hill captured the country’s attention when she tes- I STILL BELIEVE ANITA HILL But Some of Us Are Brave ALL THE WOMEN ARE WHITE, ALL THE BLACKS ARE MEN, tified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee describing sexual harass- “ Exciting! Affirmations and the beginning of a new era, where All the Women Are White, ment by Clarence Thomas, who had been her boss and was about to ascend s & g r EE nb E rg, ED itors Ito the Supreme Court. We know what happened: she was challenged, dis- the ‘women’ in women’s studies will no longer mean ‘white.’” All the Blacks Are Men, believed, and humiliated. He was given a lifelong appointment to the coun- —AudrE LordE try’s most powerful court. Despite the outcome, Anita Hill’s bravery fueled a new generation of feminists, and inspired countless social justice change “ ‘Necessary bread’ for women of all colors. The essays contain makers. This collection includes writings from those visionary leaders as they Three Generations Discuss the Legacies of BUT SOME OF US ARE BRAVE not only fact and durable resources but some of the best But Some of Us discuss the current state of sexual harassment legislation, the confluence of race, class, and gender, and the lasting lesson learned from speaking out——no writing I’ve seen around.” matter the cost. I Still Believe Anita Hill also features original artistic tributes —AdrIENNE rIch Are Brave to Anita Hill, and a new essay by Hill on the the hearings, and their meaning for her life twenty years later. Speaking Truth to Power Black Women’s Studies Black Women’s Studies (Second Edition) i s

With original contributions by till bE li EVE Devon W. carbado • Kimberlé Williams crenshaw • Edwidge Danticat Edited by Amy Richards and Cynthia Greenberg Edited by Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith Maureen Dowd • asali DeVan Ecclesiastes • Eve Ensler • rha goddess cynthia greenberg • lani guinier • Melissa V. harris-Perry anita F. hill • Deborah copaken Kogan • lisa Kron • catharine a. MacKinnon

Emily May • Pat Mitchell • lynn nottage • charles ogletree • Mary oliver a nita h ill Kathleen Peratis • letty cottin Pogrebin • ai-jen Poo • Kevin Powell Afterword by Brittney C. Cooper Judith resnik • amy richards • Dorothy samuels • Patricia schroeder louise M. slaughter • Joanne n. smith • gloria steinem • hope anita smith Patricia J. Williams • Jamia Wilson • Virginia Valian • Julie Zeilinger In 1991, decades before #MeToo, Anita Hill became a household name, & Barbara Smith Patricia Bell-Scott Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Edited by i still bE liEVE AkAshA (GLorIA T.) huLL, BArBArA smITh,

ANd PATrIcIA BELL-scoTT s arah Putnam © 1981 aMy richarDs is the author of Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself, co-author (with Jennifer Baumgardner) of Manifesta: Young Women, and sexual harassment became part of mainstream conversation for the Originally published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave is the first com- Feminism, and the Future, and co-founder of Soapbox, Inc, the feminist lecture “ It’s back! In college, Brave allowed me to see myself in 2nd agency. cynthia grEEnbErg, a former community organizer, works as a anita hill feminism. This new edition brings this essential and still edition consultant to social justice, human rights, and arts organizations. She organized the Sex, Power, and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later conference that powerfully relevant book to a new generation.” inspired this volume. eDITeD BY Amy richArds AnD cynthiA greenberg first time. Today that moment remains a rallying point for issues of harass- —VEroNIcA chAmBErs prehensive collection of black feminist scholarship. ISBN 978-155861-809-1 $21.95 thrEE gEnErations Discuss thE lEgaciEs isbn 978-155861-898-5 $24.95 Us Edited by Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, oF sPEaKing truth to PoWEr Patricia Bell-Scott & Barbara Smith ment in the workplace, at school, and on the streets. New Afterword by Brittney Cooper

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VALERIE SOLANAS THE RIOT GRRRL COLLECTION The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM Edited by Lisa Darms (and Shot Andy Warhol) Essay by Johanna Fateman Breanne Fahs This collection reproduces a sampling of the original zines, posters, and Shockingly little work has interrogated Solanas’s life. This book is the printed calls to arms of the Riot Grrrl revolution. first biography about Solanas, including original interviews with family, details about her own writing and copyright, and her elusive personal and

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“ is a wild ride. Preciado leaves the identity politics of TESTO JUNKIE QUEER IDEAS Testo Junkie taking T to others, and instead, in the tradition of William S. Burroughs, TESTO JUNKIE

Kathy Acker, and Jean Genet, he conducts a wild textual experiment. PAUL B. PRECIADO The results are spectacular. . . . The gendered body will never be the same again.” —JACK HALBERSTAM, author of THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era Edited by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY “ Preciado’s brilliant book oscillates between high theory and the surging rush of testosterone. Flush with elegant theoretical formulations, lascivious sex narratives, and astute histories of gender, Testo Junkie is a key text to comprehend the deep interconnectedness of sex and drugs today.” Paul B. Preciado Foreword by Alisa Solomon | Introduction by Martin Duberman —JOSÉ ESTEBAN MUÑOZ, author of CRUISING UTOPIA hat constitutes a “real” man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory- Wmade testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny. Translated by Bruce Benderson In this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally Exploring questions of sexuality and gender, this volume brings together changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado’s diaristic account of using testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on the body as well as ten core thinkers in the field of lesbian and gay studies and provides an the imagination. In this penetrating analysis of gender, Preciado shows the ways in which

PAUL B. PRECIADO is one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. He is the author of Manifiesto contrasexual and Pornotopia: Architec- ture and Sexuality in Playboy During the Cold War, essential introduction to this interdisciplinary field as well as the pro- which has been named a finalist for the Anagrama the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed Essay Prize. He teaches at Université Paris VIII and is the director of the Independent Studies Program at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. cesses by which new—and queer—ideas are thought into being. ISBN 978-155861-837-4 $22.95 US “Inventive, daring, and blindingly lucid, Paul B. Preciado how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceu- opens a new branch of philosophical practice.” —AVITAL RONELL, author of CRACK WARS tical and pornographic industries are in the business of creating desire.

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This book addresses the fraught history of pornography and the rise of the This concise history of the sexual politics of medical practices shows how antiporn movement, and identifies the importance of porn made for and biomedical rationale was used to justify discrimination, and how its ves- by feminists. tiges are evident in abortion policy and other reproductive rights struggles today.

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26 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 27 MAGGIE TERRY Rebecca Harding Davis LIFE IN THE IRON MILLS “An American classic.” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

“You must read this book and Harding Sarah Schulman Rebecca Rebecca Harding Davis let your heart be broken.” Davis —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Rebecca Harding Davis sifted through Life in the Iron Mills Nominated for a 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction! the ashes of capitalist carnage to illuminate Edited by Tillie Olsen | Foreword by Kim Kelly these workers’ rich emotional lives and their burning hunger for something better.” —KIM KELLY

riginally published in 1861 in the Atlantic Monthly, A former police detective’s addictions jeopardize a murder case in this Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Life in the Iron Mills” Originally published in 1861, the story “Life in the Iron Mills” remains a Opaints a bleak and incisive portrait of nineteenth-century industrial America. Recovered by writer Tillie Olsen in the 1970s, Davis’s work has since become a classic for its unrelenting depiction of a working class that was exploited iconic queer writer’s return to pulp fiction. and exhausted as capitalism’s mills and factories destroyed classic of social realism and proletarian literature that paints a bleak and both the natural environment and the human spirit. Featuring a new foreword by labor journalist Kim Kelly, this reissued edition shares its uniquely prescient capitalist critique with a new generation of readers. incisive portrait of nineteenth-century industrial America. This reissued

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LOVE WAR STORIES AMONG THE WHITE MOON FACES Ivelisse Rodriguez An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction! Shirley Geok-lin Lim Feminist Press Lifetime Achievement Award Winner! This poignant, street-smart collection follows idealistic teenagers and weary mothers battling over what it means to be a Puerto Rican woman Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s memoir is a courageously frank and deeply affect- in love. ing account of a Malaysian girlhood and of the making of an Asian Amer- ican woman, writer, and teacher.

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B r i d g e t M. D a v s “ At its core, Into the Go-Slow is a love story—romantic love, love of family, “Bridgett M. Davis has created a beautiful allegory at the heart of a real- love of culture, love of self. Angie is an unforgettable heroine who will steal your heart and break it, too. Bridgett M. Davis is a brilliant writer.” INTO THE GO-SLOW YOU CAN’T GET LOST IN CAPE TOWN ist novel—an allegory of love, family, expansion, hope, and transforma- tion—all of it worked out compassionately and with integrity in the only —tAyAri JonEs, author of Silver Sparrow country that offers both allegory and realism—Nigeria. A strong book.” —Chris AbAni, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas Bridgett M. Davis Zoë Wicomb “Stories about African Americans going off to Africa in search of things past and lost have become familiar. But in Into the Go-Slow, American novelist Bridgett M. Davis breathes new life into this classic motif . . . Davis’s novel is as much an African story as it is an American story.” —Brittle PaPer Introduction by Marcia Wright I

“Davis’s novel asks the big questions reverberating through the African n

American community in the wake of the 1980s: Who are we now? What t Into the It’s 1986, and twenty-one-year-old Angie travels from her home in Detroit is Africa to us? Homeland or fantasy? Into the Go-Slow is a page turner; o

its daring protagonist is a young woman on the cusp of adulthood,

t Afterword by Carol Sicherman searching for the legacy of the sister she has lost to an era of change.” h —AyAnA MAthis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie e to Lagos, Nigeria, to retrace her late sister Ella’s steps. While there, she n 1987 Detroit, twenty-one-year-old Angie passes time working in a G mall and watching sitcoms with her mom. But beneath the surface,

Ishe is consumed by thoughts of her sister’s death years earlier in Nige- o ria. Ella had introduced Angie to Black Power and a vision of returning Go-Slow - to Africa. On impulse, Angie travels to Lagos and begins to retrace Ella’s S unravels mysteries of the past, and opens herself up to life, love, and “Wicomb has mined pure gold,” says Toni Morrison. Wicomb writes a

steps. Against a backdrop of the city’s infamous go-slow—traffic as wild l and unpredictable as a Fela lyric—she uncovers some harsh truths. For o

anyone who has wished to be of a different era, this book captures the w pain of living vicariously and the exhilaration of finding yourself. self-discovery. sparkling narrative of a “Coloured” woman’s coming to maturity—and to briDGEtt M. DAVis’s debut novel, Shifting Through Neutral, was a finalist for the 2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is a professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, where she is the director of the Sid- ney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. writing—in the complex world of mixed-race citizens in apartheid South ISBN 978-155861-864-0 $16.95 US Bridgett M. Davis Africa.

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ZORA NEALE HURSTON ZORA NEALE HURSTON A FEMINIST PRESS CLASSIC, THOUGH I GET HOME (1891–1960) was a novelist, REISSUEDI FORTY LOVE YEARS LATER. MYSELF WHEN I AM LAUGHING . . . folklorist, and anthropologist. She “ YZ Chin’s tender and furious debut is a long gaze into a was the author of several books ... And Then Again When I Am “One of the greatest writers black sky; her characters are defiant enough to find light.” including Jonah’s Gourd Vine, of our time.” Catherine LaCey Their Eyes Were Watching God, — , author of The Answers Looking Mean and Impressive —TONI MORRISON YZ Chin Mules and Men, and Dust Tracks When I Am Laughing ... “ A haunting, surprising, and rebellious collection that contains THOUGH I GET HOME on a Road, as well as over fifty A Zora Neale Hurston Reader multitudes.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) short stories, essays, and plays. uring her lifetime, Zora Neale She attended Howard University, D Hurston was praised for her Barnard College, and Columbia writing but condemned for her n these stories, characters navigate fate via deft sleights University. She was born on independence and audacity. She January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, was one ofEdited the great writers of the by Alice Walker of hand: a grandfather gambles on the monsoon rains;

I . . . I Love Myself When Am Laughing a consort finds herself a new assignment; a religious man Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Harlem Renaissance, yet after her Subtly linked vignettes trace postcolonial memory and politicalFlorida. She died in Fort Pierce, in dissidence death much of her work fell out of struggles to keep his demons at bay. Central to the book is 1960. In 1973 Alice Walker had a print and her literary legacy was Isabella Sin, a small-town girl transformed into a prisoner headstone placed at her gravesite defined by men more concerned of conscience in Malaysia’s most notorious detention camp. with this epitaph: “Zora Neale with her behaviorIntroduction than with her by Mary Helen Washington Hurston: A Genius of the South.” merit. But, in the 1970s, Alice across Malaysia, England, and the United States. Walker lifted Hurston’s work from “ Sharp as an old wound that never heals, these linked stories YZ CHIN obscurity when she discovered her remind us afresh of what it takes to survive in a brutal, racially ALICE WALKER is the author unmarked grave and anthologized fraught society.” of multiple novels, short stories, her writing in this collection of children’s books, essays, and —ShirLey Geok-Lin Lim, author of folklore, essays, and fiction. poetry collections, including 2018’s Among the White Moon Faces Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart. The first-everIn Zora Nealethe 1970s Alice Walker rediscovered Zora Neale Hurston’s unmarked “ Read Though I Get Home to expand your understanding of She is the winner of the Pulitzer Hurston reader, I Love Myself . . . the world, but don’t be surprised when along the way you Prize and the National Book Award established Hurston as an for The Color Purple, and her work discover more about yourself than you bargained for.” intellectual leader for future has been translated into numerous generations of writers, and —karen Shepard, author of Kiss Me Someone WINNER languages worldwide. ensured thegrave continuation of her and anthologized her writing in this enduring collection. legacy as an American artist and icon. A testament to the power and breadth of Hurston’s oeuvre, The Louise Meriwether the newest edition of this enduring isbn 978-1-936932-16-0 $16.95 Us text remains as vital as ever for readers today. ISBN 978-1-936932-73-3 $19.95 US WINNER OF THE LOUISE MERIWETHER FIRST BOOK PRIZE First Book Prize

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28 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 29 “An intelligent, beautiful story about bodies, disguised as a story about language, disguised as a story about night terrors.” THE ILIAC CREST —YURI HERRERA “ Rivera Garza’s novel succeeds as a suspenseful psy- chological horror story in the vein of a David Lynch film or Ingmar Bergman’sPersona , as a dissolver of

THE CREST ILIAC Cristina Rivera Garza the space between genders, and as a challenge to the the iliac crest cultural erasure of the real-life Dávila. The result is mind-bending.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) Translated by Sarah Booker n a dark and stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women—one a former lover, Cristina Rivera Garza Othe other a stranger—who ruthlessly harass him and claim to know his greatest secret. In increasingly des- perate attempts to defend himself, he spirals deeper into a haunted past of disappearance and memory. Published for the first time in English, this Gothic novel destabilizes male- “ Like the ocean itself, Rivera Garza writes a world where borders shift and dissolve. In the curves of the fantastic, the highest realism is born. This world is weird. This world is so deeply true. Reader, I love this female binaries and subverts literary tropes. wholly perfect book.” —SAMANTHA HUNT, The Dark Dark Cristina

“ A willfully queer piece where the workings of Rivera Rivera Garza Garza’s wild imagination destabilize everything.” RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS —LINA MERUANE, Seeing Red Translated by Sarah Booker

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bei tong BEIJING COMRADES BRAZIL & PORTUGAL LUCIANA VILLAS-BOAS eijing Comrades tells the story of Handong, an arrogant businessman, and his obsessive, tumul- Btuous relationship with Lan Yu, a working-class bei tong student. Together the two men navigate the uncharted TRANSLATED BY SCOTT E. MYERS Bei Tong terrain of a same-sex relationship in Beijing on the brink of the Tian’anmen Square protests. First posted pseudon- Villas-Boas & Moss Literary Agency ymously on the Internet in the nineties, Beijing Comrades is among mainland China’s earliest and most influential contemporary gay novels. Provocative and controver- Translated by Scott E. Myers sial, the story quickly gained a cult following because of its depiction of gay sexuality and portrayal of the socio- [email protected] political unrest of late-eighties Beijing. This is the first beijing comrades English-language translation of Beijing Comrades.

“Scott E. Myers’s translation of this landmark work of Chinese queer fiction is a pure joy on a literary level. A must-read for Beijing Comrades tells the story of Handong, an arrogant businessman, understanding sexual diversity beyond the West.” —FRAN MARTIN, author of Backward Glances “A melancholic parable in which desire and FRANCE DEBORAH DRUBA self-interest reconfigure revolutionary ideals and unbridled investments in a neoliberal new world order.” beijing and his obsessive, tumultuous relationship with Lan Yu, a working-class —DAVID L. ENG, author of The Feeling of Kinship

“Candid and courageous. An exploration of the conjunction of love, money, and politics in comrades Agence Deborah Druba a pivotal moment in postsocialist China.” student. Together the two men navigate the uncharted terrain of a same- —SHELDON LU, author of Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics a novel sex relationship in Beijing on the brink of the Tiananmen Square protests. [email protected] ISBN 978-155861-907-4 $16.95 US

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“A magnificent gem.” — j e n n i f e r c r o f t THE LIVING DAYS ISRAEL GEULA GEURTS Ananda Devi The Deborah Harris Agency Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman [email protected] “ Beautifully written, visceral, and ecstatic. Unafraid, as angels might be, to bear witness to the force of entropy pulling us all toward death.” —PRETI TANEJA, author of We That Are Young chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an Winner of a 2019 French Voices Award! A unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a seventy-five-year-old white British spinster, and Cub, a thirteen-year-old Jamaican boy from Brixton. As dementia overtakes her reality, Mary clings to phan- ITALY ROBERTA OLIVA toms, latching on to Cub and channeling her remain- ing energy into their relationship. But their macabre romance comes to a horrific climax as white suprem- acy, desperation, and class conflict explode on the This novel of post-9/11 London is a masterful dissection of racism, aging, streets of London. The Living Days encapsulates Ananda Devi’s daring, Natoli, Stefan & Oliva unflinching talent and paints an unforgettable portrait of an increasingly nationalistic metropolis. and the perturbing nature of desire. [email protected]

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ARID DREAMS SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA TERESA VILARRUBLA Duanwad Pimwana The Foreign Office Translated by Mui Poopoksakul [email protected] In thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, TURKEY AMY MARIE SPANGLER this collection explores class, gender, and disenchantment in a changing AnatoliaLit Agency country. [email protected]

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