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Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.0
Its really incredible everything Leah went through to become the person she is today.
This memoir is raw and extremely emotional. It is written in a way that makes it feel like a collection of stories or memories. Her struggles waiting for her immigration landed status to be approved, her hunger, the fear, her past, all of it is so vividly written. Through her struggles and perseverance she learns who she is, her identity as a femme and a woman of color. It was tough to read this book only because of all the raw emotions and pain the author has gone through. As the reader you can really feel it all.
I'm glad I accidentally found this book while looking for something else on my libraries website.
This memoir is raw and extremely emotional. It is written in a way that makes it feel like a collection of stories or memories. Her struggles waiting for her immigration landed status to be approved, her hunger, the fear, her past, all of it is so vividly written. Through her struggles and perseverance she learns who she is, her identity as a femme and a woman of color. It was tough to read this book only because of all the raw emotions and pain the author has gone through. As the reader you can really feel it all.
I'm glad I accidentally found this book while looking for something else on my libraries website.