Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

240 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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Lambda Literary Award finalistIn 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left ...

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Moods

emotional 88%
reflective 82%
challenging 58%
dark 41%
hopeful 41%
sad 23%
inspiring 17%
tense 17%
adventurous 11%
informative 11%
funny 5%

Pace

medium 52%
fast 35%
slow 11%

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