FEMINIST PRESS 2020 CATALOG CONTENTS 2 CONTACT INFORMATION Letter from the Executive Director & Publisher

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER Jamia Wilson 3 [email protected] Spring 2020 Titles

SENIOR EDITOR & FOREIGN RIGHTS MANAGER Lauren Rosemary Hook [email protected] 9 Fall 2020 Titles

SENIOR SALES, MARKETING & PUBLICITY MANAGER Jisu Kim [email protected] 16 Amethyst Editions 19 Backlist Highlights 29 Rights & Permissions

THE FEMINIST PRESS 365 Fifth Avenue | Suite 5406 New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 817–7915 Letter from Jamia Wilson, Executive Director & Publisher THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS WINNER The Louise Meriwether A Memoir First Book Prize Melissa Valentine Creating a world where everyone recognizes themselves in a book. Melissa and her older brother Junior grow up am honored to ring in the Feminist Press’s fiftieth year of feminist running around the disparate neighborhoods publishing as the youngest person and first woman of color in my of 1990s Oakland, two of six children to a Iposition as executive director and publisher. When I reflect on the white Quaker father and a black Southern years that I have spent learning and growing at FP, I am reminded of mother. But as Junior approaches adoles- how far the publishing industry has come in these fifty years, as well cence, strangers react differently to his pres- ence; he develops a hard front and falls into as how much we have yet to achieve. drug dealing. Right before Junior’s twentieth During my first week at the helm of the Feminist Press in July birthday, the family is torn apart when he is 2017, I received an anonymous voicemail: “Our ancestors planted murdered as a result of gang violence. seeds and you are the flowering of their dreams.” As a lifelong activ- The Names of All the Flowers connects one ist, I have been sustained by my literary ancestors. Since childhood, tragic death to a collective grief for all black I have drawn courage and insight from Feminist Press titles, from the boys who die too young. A lyrical recounting foundational Black feminist text But Some of Us Are Brave to Zora of a life lost, Melissa Valentine’s debut mem- Neale Hurston’s I Love Myself When I Am Laughing. These books oir is an intimate portrait of a family frac- gave me hope and stirred me to fight for gender, racial, and economic tured by the school-to-prison pipeline and an enduring love letter to an adored older justice—and more. I am honored to work with FP’s intergenerational brother. team to both enliven and deepen our intersectional vision of publish- “Valentine’s words on grief and trauma will MELISSA VALENTINE is from Oakland, CA. She ing unapologetic, accessible texts that inspire action, teach empathy, stick with me for life.” has been a fellow at the San Francisco Writ- build community, and shift culture. ers Grotto, and her work has appeared in —TYLER FORD As the Feminist Press celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, my hope Jezebel, Guernica, and others. She currently is for us to draw upon the strength of our literary and activist ances- lives in Brooklyn, NY. tors to pave new feminist futures. As we forge ahead, we know we’ll THE LOUISE MERIWETHER FIRST BOOK PRIZE keep building and creating with courageous resisters, informed edu- is awarded to the best debut work by women cators, and compassionate creators in our hearts, minds, and words. and nonbinary writers of color in celebration From each dream that flowers, we will cultivate new seeds—creating of Meriwether’s legacy and diversifying the our own descendants as we celebrate those who came before. literary canon.

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2 LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER SPRING 2020 3 APSARA ENGINE COCKFIGHT Bishakh Som María Fernanda Ampuero Translated by Frances Riddle

The eight delightfully eerie stories in Apsara In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero Engine are a subtle intervention into every- sheds light on the grotesque realities of the day reality. A woman drowns herself in a past home—family, coming-of-age, religion, and affair, a tourist chases another guest into class struggle. A family’s maids witness a an unforeseen past, and a nonbinary aca- horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned demic researches postcolonial cartography. off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters Imagining diverse futures and rewriting old find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful mythologies, these comics delve into strange brother. With violence masquerading as love, architectures, fetishism, and heartbreak. the characters in these stories spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas. Painted in rich sepia-toned watercolors, Apsara Engine is trans illustrator Bishakh Named one of the ten best fiction books of Som’s highly anticipated debut work of fic- 2018 by the New York Times en Español, tion. Showcasing a series of fraught, darkly Cockfight explores the power of the home to humorous, and seemingly alien worlds, Som both create and destroy those within it. captures the weight of twenty-first-century MARÍA FERNANDA AMPUERO is a writer and jour- life as we hurl ourselves forward into the nalist born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1976. “An astonishing collection of stories unknown. Cockfight is her first work of fiction, and her that expand and pulse into galaxy-sized BISHAKH SOM is an artist, illustrator, and writer first book to be translated into English. moments of strangeness and wonder.” “Ampuero unravels the thread of daily whose work has been featured in antholo- FRANCES RIDDLE is a writer and translator based life that is woven into homes to fashion —KELLY LINK gies such as We’re Still Here: An All-Trans in Buenos Aires, Argentina. a reality well beyond walls and familial Comics Anthology, as well as publications darkness.” like the New Yorker, the Boston Review, and the Brooklyn Rail. She currently lives in —LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE TODAY Brooklyn, NY.

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4 SPRING 2020 SPRING 2020 5 PARENTING FOR LIBERATION CELEBRATE PEOPLE’S HISTORY SECOND A Guide for Raising Black Children The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution EDITION Trina Greene Brown Edited by Josh MacPhee With forewords by Charlene Carruthers and Rebecca Solnit

Parenting for Liberation fills a critical gap Since 1988, Josh MacPhee has commis- in resources for Black parents. Pairing per- sioned and produced hundreds of post- sonal stories from her successful podcast ers by artists that pay tribute to revolution, with open-ended prompts designed to inspire racial justice, women’s rights, queer libera- reflection and creativity, the book provides tion, labor and environmental struggles, and guidance for those seeking to dismantle creative activism and organizing. Some of harmful narratives about the Black fam- today’s most interesting and socially engaged ily, initiate difficult conversations on social artists imagine and interpret key events and issues with their children, and find com- figures in an often overlooked history of munity with other parents who share their grassroots struggles. Featuring a hundred struggle. additional posters and with a new foreword by black queer organizer Charlene Carruthers, TRINA GREENE BROWN is the creator of Parenting this second edition presents these essential for Liberation, a virtual platform launched in moments as a visual tour through decades 2016 featuring blogs and podcasts that aim and across continents. to connect, inspire, and uplift Black parents. Brown was named the 2017 Black Feminist JOSH MACPHEE is a designer, artist, and archi- Rising by Black Women’s Blueprint and an vist. He is a founding member of the Just- “These posters keep alive some power and Inspirational Parent in 2018 by CADRE. seeds Artists’ Cooperative, and the author of some hope in the public sphere.” over half a dozen books. —REBECCA SOLNIT

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6 SPRING 2020 SPRING 2020 7 LIFE IN THE IRON MILLS I HAD A MISCARRIAGE And Other Stories A Memoir, a Movement Rebecca Harding Davis Jessica Zucker Edited by Tillie Olsen | With a new foreword by Kim Kelly

Originally published in 1861, the story “Life When Jessica Zucker was sixteen weeks in the Iron Mills” remains a classic of social pregnant, she had a miscarriage while at realism and proletarian literature that paints home, alone. Instructed to bring her baby to a bleak and incisive portrait of nineteenth- the hospital in a plastic bag, Jessica texted century industrial America. This reissued her husband, her family, anyone she could, edition includes an updated critical foreword while en route: “I HAD A MISCARRIAGE.” by labor journalist Kim Kelly and shares a With these four words, and the articulation of uniquely prescient capitalist critique with a her painful journey soon to follow, she would new generation. start a movement.

REBECCA HARDING DAVIS (1831–1910) was an In this half-memoir, half-manifesto, Zucker American author and journalist, and a pio- documents her mission to break open the neer of literary realism. Lauded as a “brave silence, stigma, and shame surrounding new voice” by both Louisa May Alcott and pregnancy loss. I Had a Miscarriage is a Ralph Waldo Emerson, Davis held a prolific heartbreaking yet hopeful book about loss, career with over five hundred published recovery, and honesty around birthing bod- works, but fell out of public knowledge after ies—an urgent reminder, in these trying her death. times, of the power of speaking openly and “You must read this book and let your heart truthfully about one’s experiences. TILLIE OLSEN (1912–2007) was an American be broken.” writer and early feminist. Her most nota- JESSICA ZUCKER is a clinical psychologist who —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ble works include “Tell Me a Riddle” and specializes in women’s reproductive and Silences. maternal mental health. In 2014 Zucker launched the viral #IHadaMiscarriage cam- paign 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 Amer- ica, and CNN. She lives in Los Angeles.

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8 SPRING 2020 FALL 2020 9 GRIEVING A WORLD BETWEEN Dispatches from a Wounded Country Emily Hashimoto Cristina Rivera Garza Translated by Sarah Booker

Grieving is Cristina Rivera Garza’s hybrid In 2004 college students Eleanor Suzuki and collection of short crónicas, journalism, and Leena Shah meet in an elevator. Both girls personal essays on systemic violence in con- are on the brink of adulthood, each full of temporary Mexico. Drawing together horror possibility and big ideas, and they fall into theory and historical analysis, she outlines a brief whirlwind romance. Years later, Elea- how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug nor and Leena collide on the streets of San trafficking—culminating in the misnamed Francisco—grown and changed, and each “war on drugs”—has shaped her country. separately partnered—and find themselves, Working from and against this political con- once again, irresistibly pulled back together. text, Rivera Garza posits that collective grief Emily Hashimoto’s debut novel perfectly cap- is an act of resistance against state violence, tures the wonder and confusion of growing up and that writing is a powerful mode of seek- in millennial America. In sparkling prose, she ing social justice and embodying resilience. follows two immigrant women as they navi- CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA is an award-winning gate family, female friendship, and their own writer, poet, translator, and critic. The recipi- fraught history. ent of the Roger Caillois and the Anna Segh- EMILY HASHIMOTO is a queer writer of color ers Prizes, she is the only two-time winner from the suburbs of New Jersey. Her non­ of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. She fiction writing has appeared in the Rumpus is currently a distinguished professor of His- and Bitch magazine, and she lives in New Cover 4 “Moving, modern, intelligent,GT Walsheim Bold, Blitz and Script, Woodland Bold panic studies at the University of Houston. York City. entertaining.” SARAH BOOKER is a Spanish-to-English trans- —SARAH SCHULMAN lator and PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her trans- lations have appeared in the Paris Review, Asymptote, and the Brooklyn Rail, among others.

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10 FALL 2020 FALL 2020 11 HOW TO BUILD A HOOKERS ARMY THE ECHOING IDA COLLECTION Essays on Sex Work and Survival Edited by Kemi Alabi, Cynthia R. Greenlee, Erin Malone, Edited by Natalie West, with Tina Horn and Janna A. Zinzi Foreword by Michelle Duster

This collection of narrative essays by sex The Black women and nonbinary writers of worker writers presents an angry, crystal- the Echoing Ida collective harness the power clear rejoinder: there’s never been a better of media for justice. Aiming to move the time to fight for justice. Responding to the needle on the most pressing issues of our #MeToo movement that began in 2017, sex time, Echoing Ida nurtures a community of workers from across the industry—hook- Black writers who—like their foremother Ida ers and prostitutes, strippers and dancers, B. Wells-Barnett—believe the “way to right porn stars, cam girls, and dommes and subs wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon alike—come together to complicate narra- them.” tives of workplace sexual harassment and In this anthology, the best of the Echoing violence, and to move beyond conversations Ida collective’s writing is gathered for the that center normative careers. first time, including pieces addressing state In pieces by Melissa Gira Grant, Audacia Ray, violence, media and culture, sexuality, moth- Yin Q, thotscholar, and more, these stories erhood, and more. Featuring a foreword by explore sex work as work, and sex workers Michelle Duster, activist and great-grand- as laboring subjects in need of respect—not daughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, these rescue. essays imagine a Black, gender-expansive, and liberated future. NATALIE WEST is a Los Angeles–based profes- sional Dominatrix. Her writing on sex work, KEMI ALABI is a Chicago-based writer, editor, kink, and queer culture can be found in and teaching artist. As editorial manager of Salon, Autostraddle, and Kink Academy. Forward Together, they’ve helped lead Echo- ing Ida and its growing Truth Teller Network TINA HORN hosts and produces the kink pod- since 2014. CYNTHIA R. GREENLEE is a writer, cast Why Are People into That?! She is based editor, and historian of the African Ameri- in Brooklyn. can experience. She currently works as a senior editor at Rewire News. ERIN MALONE is a longtime organizer and communications strategist, based in Brooklyn. She now works at Forward Together. JANNA A. ZINZI is a com- munications strategist, writer, and performer. She has worked with Forward Together since 2013.

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12 FALL 2020 FALL 2020 13 THE LIVING IS EASY FAULT LINES Dorothy West Meena Alexander Afterword by Adelaide M. Cromwell Preface by Ng˜ug˜ı wa Thiong’o

This first novel by Dorothy West was one Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Fault Lines of only a handful to be published by black follows one woman’s evolution as a writer at women during the 1940s. The Living Is Easy home—and in exile—across continents and tells the story of Cleo Judson, daughter of cultures. Meena Alexander was born into a Southern sharecroppers, determined to inte- privileged childhood in India and grew into a grate into Boston’s black elite. Married to turbulent adolescence in the Sudan, before the “Black Banana King” Bart Judson, Cleo moving to England and then New York City. maneuvers her three sisters and their chil- With poetic insight and devastating honesty, dren—but not their husbands—into living Alexander explores how trauma and recovery with her, attempting to re-create her original shaped the entire landscape of her memory: family in a Bostonian mansion. of her family, her writing process, and her very self. DOROTHY WEST (1907–1998) shared the cov- eted Opportunity short-story prize with Zora This new edition, published on the two-year Neale Hurston in 1927 and later moved to anniversary of Alexander’s passing in 2018, New York, where she became the youngest will feature a commemorative afterword cel- of the writers associated with the Harlem ebrating her legacy. Renaissance. Also the author of The Wed- MEENA ALEXANDER (1951–2018) was an ding, she lived on Martha’s Vineyard until her “Evocative and moving.” acclaimed poet, scholar, teacher, and advo- “A powerful work.” death. cate for global gender justice. She was a —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY —ESSENCE distinguished professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

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14 FALL 2020 FALL 2020 15 AMETHYST EDITIONS

“Gritty, sexy, very queer— up-all-night compelling.” THE NOT WIVES Founded by Michelle Tea —ANDREA LAWLOR A novel of sex-positive awakening he Not Wives traces the lives of Tthree women as they navigate the and burgeoning political resistance, Occupy Wall Street movement and set in Occupy-era New York City. one another.Carley Stevie is a nontenured Moore professor and mom in the middle Amethyst Editions is an imprint founded by Michelle Tea 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 and a desire to explore

© AMY© TOUCHETTE —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) polyamory;“A and Johannaprovocative is a homeless and well-told story about chosen community, friend- teenagertryingtofindherwayinthe championing emerging queer writers who complicate “ A terrificliterarynovelaboutwhatitmeanstobelongtoyourselfwhile world, who bears shared witness to trying to be a part of something bigger.” a tragedy that interlaces her life with —INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW Stevie’s. ship, and human frailty.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) “ The Not Wives is not just for not wives—it’s for all of us struggling is the author of CARLEY MOORE with how to be human amid the ongoing clamor and bewilderment of In the midst of economic collapse and the conversation around LGBTQ+ experiences beyond a the essay collection 16 Pills, the poetry classconflict,late-nighthookupsand twenty-first-centurylife.” chapbook Portal Poem, and the young —LAURA SIMS complicated exes, these characters adult novel The Stalker Chronicles. Her piece together a new American work has appeared in the American “ Carley Moore has created a landscape of achingly authentic female lives identityThe of resistance—against Not the Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate Poetry Review, Brainchild, the Brooklyn that we rarely see given such literary treatment. A compulsively readable loomingshadowoffinancialprecarity, coming-out narrative. Rail, the Journal of Popular Culture, and novel with deep roots in our gorgeous, messed-up world.” thegentrificationofNewYork,andthe other publications. She is a clinical —MICHELLE TEA traditional role of wife. professor of writing and contemporary the Occupy Wall Street movement and one another: Stevie is 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 at New York University and a senior book down.” associate at Bard College’s Institute —LYNN MELNICK a nontenured professor and mom in the middle of a divorce; for Writing and Thinking. She lives in “ With seemingly effortless prose, Carley Moore paints a rich portrait of New York City. threedeeplycompellingwomennavigatingthepolaritiesandconfining norms of modern-day life.” —ETAF RUM her best friend Mel is a bartender, torn between her long-term “A story of migration, queerness, brokenness, and love, this book FIEBRE TROPICAL ISBN 978-1-936932-68-9 $17.95 US is absolute music to my ears.” —INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS girlfriend and a desire to explore polyamory; and Johanna is a DELGADO JULIANA

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FIEBRE TROPICAL strangeJuli new city. DelgadoHer alienation Lopera shared witness to a tragedy that interlaces her life with Stevie’s. “ ¡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 an evangelical church—replete “ Fiebre Tropical is a triumph, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” with Christian salsa and baptisms September 2019 • $17.95 • 978-1-936932-68-9 • 368 pages • Rights: US & Canada —DANIEL HANDLER, author of Bottle Grove for the dead—that meets in the ballroom“ ofThis their local feisty Hyatt Hotel. coming-of-age tale introduces a funny, fresh, “ Delgado Lopera’s riveting new book is propelled as much by its JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA is hurricane-force language as by its unforgettable characters: storm- But there, andFrancisca alsoindelible meets new voice.” an award-winning Colombian tossed women making the best of their new lives in a new country.” the magnetic Carmen: head of writer and historian based in —CAROLINE PAUL, author of You Are Mighty the youth group and the pastor’s San Francisco. 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Her TROPICAL “ When OP burst onto the scene, it was an absolute game changer Janet Mock, Silas Howard, T Cooper, and Ian Harvie; and see-all Colombian lesbian voice—this novel is much needed and alive.” nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a groundbreaking rhythmic in trans media and representation. This collection is a beauti- visual art, photography, and short fiction. ful tribute to that treasured publication, and an authentic and Edited by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos and has appeared in Eleven Eleven, —SARAH SCHULMAN, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse Spanglish,alienation Fiebre Tropical grows when her mother is sweptmoving representation up of transinto male culture. Essential for both In celebration of the magazine’s ten-year run, this essential Foglifter, Four Way Review, Broadly, establishes Juliana Delgado longtime readers and those diving in for the first time.” collection compiles the best of all twenty issues. 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$17.95 US / $23.99 CAN The Summer of Dead Birds takes TABITHA AND MAGOO DRESS UP TOO readersTHE on a lyrical SUMMER road trip OF DEAD BIRDS MICHELLE TEA is the author of several works Tabitha and Magoo love to play dress up in winding through death, breakups, “A near mythic journey into life-stopping loss: for young readers, including Mermaid in their room. Tabitha uses her brother’s shirts and the complications of everyday Chelsea Creek and the Astro Pals picture book to make superhero capes, and Magoo uses his

Tabitha and Magoo Dress Up Too a howl, and a hymn to what’s mortal.” living. With a knack for finding series. A prolific literary organizer in queer and sister’s frilly skirts to fashion gowns. They’re —MARIE HOWE feminist communities, she founded RADAR disappointed to think they can’t go outside in humor in grief and absurdity in Michelle Tea Ali Liebegott Productions, Drag Queen Story Hour, and their new outfits, but then the gorgeous drag THE SUMMER OF DEAD BIRDS beauty, Ali Liebegott embraces life’s the Amethyst Editions imprint at the Feminist queen Morgana magically appears! “A fierce, funny, agonized, cracked-open aria casual highs and inevitable lows, Press. She lives in Los Angeles. in homage to the presence and passing of exposing her humanity and inviting With their new friend’s help, they learn to fiercely loved things.” ELLIS VAN DER DOES is a Dutch illustrator and But on one special day while Tabitha practiced her powers defy restrictiveIllustrated gender roles and celebrate by Ellis van der Does a connectivity with ourselves and designer based in London. being themselves. The trio, dressed in colorful and Magoo stumbled about in Mom’s heels, high as towers, —MAGGIE NELSON the people who populate our costumes and riding in a flying car, then heads “A fierce, funny, agonized, cracked-open aria in homage to the they laid eyes on a visitor they’d never before seen— to the local library for a diverse and fun-filled gorgeous, ridiculous, sometimes story time. “Sweet and so sad and the writing’s perfect.” a gorgeous, ginormous, fantastic Drag Queen! painful planet. —EILEEN MYLES presence and passing of fiercely loved things.” Tabitha and Magoo love to play dress up.“A chronicleTabitha of grief & its animals—the birds our cities kill, the dogs who are our best friends, the lovers we can’t keep, the strange beauty of a mother’s —MAGGIE NELSON uses her brother’s shirts to make superherodeath, thecapes, strange translation of all of death’s old

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AGAINST MEMOIR ZORA NEALE HURSTON I LOVE MYSELF WHEN I AM LAUGHING . . . ZORA NEALE HURSTON A FEMINIST PRESS CLASSIC, (1891–1960) was a novelist, REISSUED FORTY YEARS LATER. Complaints, Confessions & Criticismsfolklorist, and anthropologist. She AND THEN AGAIN WHEN I AM was the author of several books ... And Then Again When I Am “One of the greatest writers including Jonah’s Gourd Vine, of our time.” Their Eyes Were Watching God, Looking Mean and Impressive —TONI MORRISON Michelle Tea Mules and Men, and Dust Tracks When I Am Laughing ... LOOKING MEAN AND IMPRESSIVE on a Road, as well as over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. uring her lifetime, Zora Neale Winner of the 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-SpielvogelShe attended Howard University, Award D Hurston was praised for her Barnard College, and Columbia Awriting Zora but condemned forNeale her Hurston Reader University. She was born on independence and audacity. She for the Art of the Essay! January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, was one of the great writers of the Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, . . . I Love Myself When Am Laughing EditedHarlem Renaissance, by yet after Alice her Walker Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, in death much of her work fell out of 1960. In 1973 Alice Walker had a print and her literary legacy was Against Memoir is Tea’s first collectionheadstone placed atof her gravesiteessays, delivered with her Introductiondefined by men more concerned by Mary Helen Washington with this epitaph: “Zora Neale with her behavior than with her Hurston: A Genius of the South.” merit. But, in the 1970s, Alice signature candor and dark humor. Walker lifted Hurston’s work from obscurity when she discovered her ALICE WALKER is the author unmarked grave and anthologized of multiple novels, short stories, her writing in this collection of children’s books, essays, and “Onefolklore, essays, of and thefiction. greatest writers of our time.” poetry collections, including 2018’s Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart. The first-ever Zora Neale May 2018 • $18.95 • 978-1-936932-18-4 • 320 pagesShe is the winner • of the Rights: Pulitzer World x UK Hurston reader, I Love Myself . . . Prize and the National Book Award established Hurston as an —TONI MORRISON for The Color Purple, and her work intellectual leader for future has been translated into numerous generations of writers, and languages worldwide. ensured the continuation of her legacy as an American artist and Duringicon. A testament to theher power lifetime, Zora Neale Hurston was praised and breadth of Hurston’s oeuvre, BLACK WAVE the newest edition of this enduring fortext remains her as vital aswriting ever for but condemned for her independence readers today. Michelle Tea ISBN 978-1-936932-73-3 $19.95 US and audacity. Her work fell into obscurity until the “An apocalyptic fantasia.” —NEW YORK TIMES 1970s, when Alice Walker rediscovered Hurston’s It’s San Francisco in 1999 and the world is ending. Drug-addled unmarked grave and anthologized her writing in this writer Michelle has alienated most of her friends and lovers with her enduring collection, establishing her as an intellec- drama and heads to LA to write a screenplay, where she endeavors to tual leader for future generations of black writers. make sense of her life.

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SINCE I LAID MY BURDEN DOWN TESTO JUNKIE “Testo Junkie is a wild ride. Preciado leaves the identity politics of taking T to others, and instead, in the tradition of William S. Burroughs, TESTO JUNKIE Brontez Purnell Kathy Acker, and Jean Genet, he conducts a wild textual experiment. PAUL B. PRECIADO Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the The results are spectacular. . . . The gendered body will never be the same again.” Winner of the Whiting Award for Fiction! —JACK HALBERSTAM, author of THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE “ Preciado’s brilliant book oscillates between high theory and the surging Pharmacopornographic Era 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 Paul B. Preciado Home for his uncle’s funeral, DeShawn pondersdrugs family, today.” church, and his lifelong quest for love. This raw, funny novella traces—JOSÉ ESTEBANa queer MUÑOZ, author black of CRUISING UTOPIA Translated by Bruce Benderson 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 man’s sexual and artistic awakenings as he stumbles—oftenlonger destiny. pain- In this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways fully, sometimes joyously—down memory lane. in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the “The gendered body will never be the same again.” 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 —JACK HALBERSTAM the imagination.

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18 AMETHYST EDITIONS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 19 THE LIVING DAYS “A magnificent gem.” THE NATIVE TONGUE TRILOGY — j e n n i f e r c r o f t SUZETTE HADEN Ananda Devi Suzette Haden Elgin A CLASSIC OF ELGIN FEMINIST DYSTOPIA Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman With new forewords by Leni Zumas,REISSUED FOR A Winner of a 2019 French Voices Award! Rebecca Romney, and KarenNEW Lord GENERATION OF READERS “ Beautifully written, visceral, and ecstatic. Unafraid, as angels might be, to bear witness to the force of entropy “Published in 1984, Native Tongue got it right. In the power and pulling us all toward death.” precision of language, women can begin to change the world.” —PRETI TANEJA, author of We That Are Young “A classic text of angry feminism—MAGGIE SHENand KING, authoran ofexemplary An Excess Male “Devi is alert to the ways in which socialchance encounter forces, on Portobello such Road incites an A unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a seventy-five-year-old white British spinster, and Cub, experiment in speculativen 2205,fiction.” the Nineteenth Amendment has been repealed and as racism and ageism, are reshapinga thirteen-year-old London’s Jamaican boy already from Brixton. As I men hold absolute power. The Earth’s economy relies on an dementia overtakes her reality, Mary clings to phan- insular group of linguists who “breed” women to become inter­ toms, latching on to Cub and channeling her remain- stellar translators until they are sent to the Barren House to await ing energy into their relationship. But their macabre death. But instead,—URSULA these women are secretlyK. creatingLE GUIN a lan­ complex post-colonial landscape, andromance comes her to a horrificfluid, climax as white suprem- guage of their own, Láadan, to reclaim their autonomy and acy, desperation, and class conflict explode on the make resistance possible for all. streets of London. The first in this acclaimed science fiction trilogy, and with a poetic language memorably conjuresThe Livinga Daysunion encapsulates of Ananda two Devi’s daring, new foreword by author Leni Zumas, Native Tongue remains unflinching talent and paints an unforgettable portrait Originally published in 1984,a testament toa the year power of languagebefore and collective The action Hand - outcasts.” of an increasingly nationalistic metropolis. to reenvision an oppressive world. maid’s Tale, this dystopian trilogy is a testament to —NEW YORKER the power of language and women’s collective action. FOREWORD BY LENI ZUMAS

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THE NAKED WOMAN TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS “A timely, welcome book.” —THE MILLIONS GIRLS NEGRO FOR SCHOOL TRAINING A WELL-READ BLACK GIRL BOOK CLUB PICK Armonía Somers “ A timely translation of a Latin American hidden Camille Acker jewel. Wild and brilliant, Armonía Somers speaks to hen you’re black and female in America, society’s Translated by Kit Maude us in the here and now of our troubled present.” W rules were never meant to make you safe or free. —CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA, author of The Iliac Crest Over 5,000 copies sold! Camille Acker’s relatable yet unexpected characters break down the walls of respectability politics, showing that the THE NAKED WOMANTHE NAKED only way for black women to be free is to be themselves. Shortlisted for the 2019 Nationalgroundbreaking Translation feminist classic fromAward! 1950s Uruguay, A The Naked Woman was met with scandal and outrage due “Acker perfectly captures the varied experiences to its erotic content, cynicism, and stylistic ingenuity. The novel of her characters, making clear that each of [their] lives is worth exploring individually, and valued as being one follows Rebeca Linke’s ardent, ultimately tragic, attempt to free “The life experience of Acker’s Washingtonian women shining part of the ocean of human experience.” herself from a hostile society. Juxtaposing fantastic imagery —NYLON and brutal depictions of violence, Somers will resonate with “Somers’s novel is a surreal,readers gripping of Clarice Lispector, experience.” Angela Carter, and Djuna Barnes. is broad . . . but they all share a“This shrewd flawlessly executed understanding work reinvigorates ARMONÍA SOMERS the short fiction genre.” —BUST “ The extraordinary power of The Naked Woman lies of the narrow perceptions they face as black women.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) “Training School for Negro Girls is a symphony of story: in the mysterious sensation of a metaphor whose the clear, true voices of girls and women shaping who they might Acker Camille meaning is being suspended. Like all literary greats, be against the constraints of the weights and counterweights Somers offers no answers, she just amplifies the of race and—NEW history and gender. YORK Marvelous.” TIMES Originally published in 1950squestions.” Uruguay, The Naked —VERONICA CHAMBERS —ANDRÉS BARBA, author of Such Small Hands “With fresh portrayals, vivid prose, and real attitude, we see Washington, DC, anew, Woman caused controversy and outrage due to its When you’re black and femaleas a backdrop in forAmerica, black girls coming into theirsociety’s own.” —BRIDGETT M. DAVIS shocking erotic content. Somers’s English debut will rules were never meant to make you safe or free. Camille Acker’s relatable yet unexpected characters resonate with readers of Clarice Lispector, Djuna ISBN 978-1-936932-37-5 $17.95 US “A surreal, nightmarish book about women’s ISBN 978-1-936932-43-6 $16.95 US struggle for autonomy—and how that struggle is Barnes, and Angela Carter. (always, inevitably) met with violence.” break down the walls of respectability politics, show- —CARMEN MARIA MACHADO ing that the only way for black women to be free is to be themselves.

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20 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 21 YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN FAT HOW MAMAS LOVE THEIR BABIES Virgie Tovar Written by Juniper Fitzgerald HOW Over 8,000 copies sold! Illustrated by Elise Peterson HOW MAMAS LOVE THEIR BABIES MAMAS Virgie Tovar’s manifesto isn’t about body positivity—it’s calling for a Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for LOVE fat revolution. their children, this picture book is the first to depict THEIR a sex-worker parent. It provides an expanded notion BABIES WRITTEN BY ILLUSTRATED BY of working mothers and challenges the idea that only Juniper Fitzgerald Elise Peterson ISBN 978-193693-200-9 $16.95

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YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE FEMINIST FOLKTALES SERIES PHELPS KAMALA Beth Pickens Edited by Ethel Johnston Phelps FEMINIST FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD ETHEL JOHNSTON PHELPS

KAMALA Introduction by KATE SCHATZ | With illustrations by SUKI BOYNTON Over 8,000 copies sold! Illustrated by Suki Boynton What might we dream of after reading these tales? Introductions by Gayle Forman, Kate Schatz, Daniel José Older,In Kamala, the second volume in the Feminist Folktales series, stories from countries such as India, Peru, China, and Ireland follow clever, A candid and encouraging guidebook about creating art in times of outspoken heroines—demonstrating and Renée Watson how the courage and power of women political upheaval, censorship, and oppression. hold our world together. “Who stole these fierce, bawdy stories from the mouths of mothers and transformed the strong Bringing readers tales from China, Sudan, Norway, Peru,girls intoand damsels in distress? beyond, Who cast the spell . . . and how do we break it? With books like this, obviously!” —Kate Schatz, this best-selling four-volume series reminds us that girlsRad Americanand Women A–Zwomen VOL. II everywhere have been the heroes of their own stories for centuries.isbn 978-155861-940-1 $14.95 Us

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

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“HIGH VOLTAGE—FULL OF YOUTH, DETERMINATION, AND POWER.”—EMILY BAZELON THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT SPIT AND PASSION “I’m a big Cristy C. Road fan. Spit and Passion is a graphic delight, and the depiction of Cristy C. r oad awkward youth is spot-on, weird, and familiar. -- Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future Cristy C. Road “Cristy C. Road is the Jack Kerouac of the young queer generation. 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- In this punk graphic novel, twelve-year-old Cristy isA struggling denly, you belong. to bal- 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 ance tradition in a Cuban Catholic family with herurban conformitynewfound she is surrounded by. She finds solace in thequeer closet—where Cutting-edge voices including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, and she lets her deep 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.

identity, and she begins a chronic obsession withCristy C. theroad has reached punk cult status for work band Sheila Heti invite us to imagine the world we want. Featuring essays, that captures the beauty of the imperfect. Her career 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 Project Green Day. She has also illustrated countless album covers, book jackets, and political organization propaganda. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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22 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 23 richar D But Some of Us Are Brave n the fall of 1991, Anita Hill captured the country’s attention when she tes- I STILL BELIEVE ANITA HILL ALL THE WOMEN ARE WHITE, ALL THE BLACKS ARE“ Exciting! Affirmations MEN, and the beginning of a new era, where All the Women Are White, tified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee describing sexual harass- ment by Clarence Thomas, who had been her boss and was about to ascend s & g r EE nb E rg, ED itors the ‘women’ in women’s studies will no longer mean ‘white.’” All the Blacks Are Men, Ito the Supreme Court. We know what happened: she was challenged, dis- —AudrE LordE believed, and humiliated. He was given a lifelong appointment to the coun- try’s most powerful court. Despite the outcome, Anita Hill’s bravery fueled “ ‘Necessary bread’ for women of all colors. The essays contain a new generation of feminists, and inspired countless social justice change 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 makers. This collection includes writings from those visionary leaders as they discuss the current state of sexual harassment legislation, the confluence of writing I’ve seen around.” race, class, and gender, and the lasting lesson learned from speaking out——no —AdrIENNE rIch Are Brave matter the cost. I Still Believe Anita Hill also features original artistic tributes to Anita Hill, and a new essay by Hill on the the hearings, and their meaning Black Women’s Studies for her life twenty years later. Speaking Truth to Power 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 & Barbara Smith Patricia Bell-Scott Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Edited by AkAshA (GLorIA T.) huLL, BArBArA smITh,

i still bE liEVE 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, name, and sexual harassment became part of mainstream conversa- Originally published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave“ It’s back! In college, Brave is allowed theme to see myself first in 2nd Feminism, and the Future, and co-founder of Soapbox, Inc, the feminist lecture edition agency. cynthia grEEnbErg, a former community organizer, works as a anita hill feminism. This new edition brings this essential and still consultant to social justice, human rights, and arts organizations. She organized powerfully relevant book to a new generation.” the Sex, Power, and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later conference that inspired this volume. eDITeD BY Amy richArds AnD cynthiA greenberg —VEroNIcA chAmBErs tion for the first time. Today that moment remains a rallying point for comprehensive collection of black feminist scholarship. Edited by Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, ISBN 978-155861-809-1 $21.95 isbn 978-155861-898-5 $24.95 Us thrEE gEnErations Discuss thE lEgaciEs Patricia Bell-Scott & Barbara Smith oF sPEaKing truth to PoWEr issues of harassment in the workplace, at school, 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, Shockingly little work has interrogated Solanas’s life. This book is and printed calls to arms of the Riot Grrrl revolution. the first biography about Solanas, including original interviews with family, details about her own writing and copyright, and her elusive

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THE DOULAS QUEER IDEAS Radical Care for Pregnant People Edited by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Edited by Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell Foreword by Alisa Solomon | Introduction by Martin Duberman Foreword by Loretta Ross Exploring questions of sexuality and gender, this volume brings Weaving together personal narratives, medical experience, and politi- together ten core thinkers in the field of lesbian and gay studies and cal investigation, The Doulas is the essential guide to this growing provides an essential introduction to this interdisciplinary field as well social movement. as the processes by which new—and queer—ideas are thought into being.

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THE FEMINIST PORN BOOK COMPLAINTS & DISORDERS The Politics of Producing Pleasure The Sexual Politics of Sickness (Second Edition) Edited by Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English and Mireille Miller-Young Introduction by Susan Faludi

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

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24 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 25 MAGGIE TERRY THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER Sarah Schulman Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nominated for a 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction! First published in 1892, this classic women’s studies text, an FP A former police detective’s addictions jeopardize a murder case in best seller, is written as the secret journal of a woman who, failing this iconic queer writer’s return to pulp fiction. to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country rest cure.

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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 Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s memoir is a courageously frank and deeply woman in love. affecting account of a Malaysian girlhood and of the making of an Asian-American 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 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 Detroit to Lagos, Nigeria, to retrace her late sister Ella’s steps. While 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 there, she unravels mysteries of the past, and opens herself up to “Wicomb has mined pure gold,” says Toni Morrison. Wicomb writes

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. life, love, and self-discovery. a sparkling narrative of a “Coloured” woman’s coming to maturity— 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. and to writing—in the complex world of mixed-race citizens in apart- ISBN 978-155861-864-0 $16.95 US Bridgett M. Davis heid South Africa.

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THOUGH I GET HOME DAUGHTER OF EARTH “ YZ Chin’s tender and furious debut is a long gaze into a black sky; her characters are defiant enough to find light.” —Catherine LaCey, author of The Answers

“ A haunting, surprising, and rebellious collection that contains THOUGH I GET HOME YZ Chin Agnes Smedley multitudes.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) n these stories, characters navigate fate via deft sleights Introduction by Paola Mendoza I of hand: a grandfather gambles on the monsoon rains; a consort finds herself a new assignment; a religious man struggles to keep his demons at bay. Central to the book is Subtly linked vignettes trace postcolonial memory and political dis- Isabella Sin, a small-town girl transformed into a prisoner of conscience in Malaysia’s most notorious detention camp. Foreword by Alice Walker

YZ CHIN sidence across Malaysia, England, and the United States. “ Sharp as an old wound that never heals, these linked stories remind us afresh of what it takes to survive in a brutal, racially fraught society.” —ShirLey Geok-Lin Lim, author of Among the White Moon Faces This sweeping novel re-creates the life story of an American working- “ Read Though I Get Home to expand your understanding of the world, but don’t be surprised when along the way you discover more about yourself than you bargained for.” class woman and burgeoning political activist in the early twentieth —karen Shepard, author of Kiss Me Someone WINNER The Louise Meriwether isbn 978-1-936932-16-0 $16.95 Us century.

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26 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 27 MARS MARS Asja Bakic´ Translated by Jennifer Zoble Afterword by Ellen Elias-Bursac´ A debut short story collection of darkly humorous speculative fiction RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS from the Balkans, showcasing a series of unique and twisted uni-

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bei tong BEIJING COMRADES 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 Villas-Boas & Moss Literary Agency terrain of a same-sex relationship in Beijing on the brink of the Tian’anmen Square protests. First posted pseudon- 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 [email protected] its depiction of gay sexuality and portrayal of the socio-

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

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PRETTY THINGS ISRAEL GEULA GEURTS Virginie Despentes The Deborah Harris Agency Translated by Emma Ramadan [email protected] Finalist for the 2019 Best Translated Book Award! ITALY ROBERTA OLIVA A pulpy, psychological tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody Natoli, Stefan & Oliva the role of the perfect woman. [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 Thai- land, this collection explores class, gender, and disenchantment in TURKEY AMY MARIE SPANGLER a changing country. AnatoliaLit Agency [email protected]

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