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The Heart's Traffic

This novel-in-poems chronicles the life of Xiaomei, an immigrant girl haunted by the death of her best friend. Told through a kaleidoscopic braid of stories, letters, and riddles, this stunning debut collection follows Xiaomei's life as she grows into her sexuality and searches for a way to deal with her complicated histories.

At times, meditation, celebration, investigation, and elegy, this is a book about personal transformation within the context of a family forced to make do — a Makeshift Family — and how one might create new language to name the New World.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 120
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780980040722
  • Genres
  • poetry, queer, fiction, transgender, lgbt
  • Release date
  • 2009