“An essential text to add to the new canon of Appalachian writing-a compassionate and rigorous memoir of the author’s experience growing up as a queer Hindu child and teenager in a small community of West Virginian Indians. I love this book and believe it introduces an important voice in America’s ongoing racial reckoning.” “Neema Avashia, in this book, has named the unnamed, spoken the unspoken so that it does not become-to paraphrase Adrienne Rich-the unspeakable, and she has done so in language that is both lyrical and direct, both entertaining and edifying, both challenging and generous. Morgan Jerkins, author of This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America and Caul Baby Wide and expansive as the land the author calls home, this essay collection subverts the mainstream’s hyperfocus on white male-dominated narratives from rural America and commands your attention from the first page to the last word.”
“ Another Appalachia is a breath of fresh air, a work that the public is in dire need of reading. Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism “This book gave me such tenderness toward a place that parsing my thoughts about it was like scooping up tadpoles with my bare hands.” No matter-Avashia’s beautifully rendered prose contains insights to which everyone can relate.” “Readers may be Indian, Appalachian, and queer or they may be some or none of these things. Appalachia needs more people like Neema Avashia.” “A timely collection that begins to fill the gap in literature focused mainly on the white male experience.”
“A graceful exploration of identity, community, and contradictions.” “This book lives beautifully in the gray area of trying to navigate a divisive environment while growing up queer and Asian American.”
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