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"This is a hybrid collection of verse and prose, memoir and history, reflections and imaginings, cultural criticism and what the writer Cathy Park Hong calls “minor feelings.” Divya Victor explores her own modes of survival, belonging and displacement, while reminding us of five South Asian men killed by white supremacists and nationalists in post-9/11 acts of domestic terrorism. In her endnotes, she says that a fear-filled confession from her mother helped her cross an emotional threshold to start the book – and like blood blooming from that open wound, Victor’s words spill onto page after page with an unstanchable urgency. This book is a profound act of poetic debridement for the South Asian American diaspora, and an insistent plea to resist erasure by first acknowledging, absorbing, processing and remembering our own communal histories."