{"product_id":"lakshmi-leah-piepzna-samarasinha-dirty-river-9781551526003","title":"Dirty River","description":"- A memoir by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (last name pronounced \"Pee-EPP-shnah, Suh-muh-ruh-SINGH-hah\"), a poet\/activist who is well regarded within queer, South Asian, and disabled communities. While she has written essays and contributed to anthologies, this is her first non-poetry book to be published. - Leah, who was raised in Worcester, MA, describes how she ran away from America in 1996 and ended up in Toronto, where she found herself amidst a community of anarchopunks intent on revolution. Throughout the book, she works her way through the personal and the political of intersectionality as she comes to identify as a queer femme of color, as a disabled person grappling with chronic illness (she has suffered from fibromyalgia since 1998), and as an abuse survivor. - The \"dirty river\" of the title refers to Blackstone River near Worcester, which is contaminated due to the numerous factories in the area; it is Leah's metaphor for how coming to terms with her own \"contaminated\" past and becoming (and embracing) the complex person she is - and all of us are. - The book's autobiographical structure brings to mind Audre Lorde's Zumi. - This book combines Arsenal's interest in LGBT literature (Amber Dawn, Ivan E. Coyote) with postcolonial literature (Vivek Shraya, Wayde Compton).","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53584569860438,"sku":"9781551526003-V","price":13.69,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781551526003_1.jpg?v=1778465358","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/lakshmi-leah-piepzna-samarasinha-dirty-river-9781551526003","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}