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Book
2019
A literary quarterly featuring fiction, poetry, and essays by contributors including Michelle Tea, Jose Antonio Vargas, Emerson Whitney, and others, with a focus on contemporary voices and identity narratives.
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What this book knows
Nigerian and diasporic voices illuminate how inherited grief, displacement, and desire shape the self across fractured worlds.
grief
My mind is on repeat, soaking up the grief and spreading it through my body. I wonder if this grief will ever let me go.
MQC-RC-207Tonight, I'm dying and my mind finds only one song to play, only one line of a song to repeat, for nothing.
MQC-RC-195self-and-identity
I wear new tongues now as well as say 'yeah,' 'you guys'—becoming someone else word by word.
MQC-RC-169I nod, forget my father in heaven, forget the one in Enugu, and say, 'Please, call me baby girl once again.'
MQC-RC-171belonging
We like this. We are alive again. Their children have followed paths of their own; tender words close every email.
MQC-RC-159We spend ten days around a large table, talking and laughing—we disagree, argue, explain, and find each other.
MQC-RC-128Illuminates
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