Jennifer Neal My Pisces Heart recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de memoir. Op 22 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Catapult het nieuwe boek met een memoir van de zwarte queer immigrant Jennifer Neal. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Jennifer Heart My Pisces Heart recensie, review en informatie
- “This is both a gorgeously written memoir of a life well-traveled, and a deeply researched inquiry into the ways that race, gender, sexuality, and history inform one’s ability to move about the world at all.” (James Factora, them)
- “A detailed, nuanced, researched, historically important account of systemic racism in the many places the author has sought to make a home. This relatable, important book stretches readers’ understanding of nationalism into globalism and of home into a complex concept for those whose homes create racialized harm . . . Readers of Neal’s book will be challenged in the best of ways..” (Booklist)
My Pisces Heart
A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents
- Auteur: Jennifer Neal (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: memoir
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Capapult
- Verschijnt: 22 oktober 2024
- Omvang: 368 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / eboek
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van de memoir van Jennifer Neal
With heart, humor, and razor-sharp observation, this intimate and incisive memoir traces the journey of a Black, queer woman as she searches the world for a place of security and acceptance to call home.
I’ve never seen home as a permanent concept; it is an image crafted from untempered glass that threatens to shatter with lack of care.
Jennifer Neal was born in the United States to a family that moved continuously for their own survival and well-being—from the Great Migration to the twenty-first century. As an adult, she has continued to travel the world as a Black queer woman, across two decades and four countries—from Japan to the US and then Australia to Germany, where she has settled for now.
Throughout her moves, Neal threads her personal story of immigration with local Black histories and racial politics to provide context for her own experiences. The result is both a crucial examination of how racism plays a foundational role in modern-day immigration systems and a tender tribute to immigrants and their stories.
An unwavering interrogation of colonialism and policy, love and loss, hypocrisy and resistance, My Pisces Heart demands meaningful conversation about not only the ways in which we live with our histories, but also how they live through us—urging an honest dialogue on why the West continues to grapple with its past and visualize its future.
Jennifer Neal is an American Australian author, artist, and occasional standup comedian. Her work has been published in NPR, Playboy, Gay Magazine, The Root, The Erotic Review, The Cut, and many other publications. She is a MacDowell Fellow and Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist. My Pisces Heart is her second book.