NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

NEW LOOK, SAME STORY. QUEER BOOKS FOR SYDNEY AND BEYOND SINCE 1982.

Audre Lorde

Zami : A New Spelling Of My Name

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"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive"

A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her older sisters. On she stumbles through teenage hardships -- suicide, abortion, hunger, a Christmas spent alone -- until she emerges into happiness: an oasis of friendship in Washington Heights, an affair in a dirty factory in Connecticut, and, finally, a journey down to the heat of Mexico, discovering sex, tenderness, and suppers of hot tamales and cold milk. This is Audre Lorde's story. It is a rapturous, life-affirming tale of independence, love, work, strength, sexuality and change, rich with poetry and fierce emotional power.

Author: Audre Lorde

Paperback, 256 Pages, First Published 1982, This Edition 2018

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