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FALL 2022–SPRING 2023
CONTENTS
CONTACT INFORMATION 2
Mission & Vision Statements
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER
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Margot Atwell
margot@feministpress.org
SENIOR EDITOR & FOREIGN RIGHTS MANAGER Fall 2022 Titles
Lauren Rosemary Hook
lauren@feministpress.org
SENIOR SALES, MARKETING & PUBLICITY MANAGER
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Spring 2023 Titles
Jisu Kim
jisu@feministpress.org
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Amethyst Editions
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Backlist Highlights
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Rights & Permissions
THE FEMINIST PRESS
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New York, NY 10016
feministpress.org
EDITORIAL VISION
The Feminist Press publishes twelve to fifteen
books a year and specializes in an array of genres
including cutting-edge fiction, activist nonfiction,
literature in translation, hybrid memoirs, children’s
books, and more.
FP seeks to champion intersectional and nuanced
works that spark much-needed dialogue and
move the feminist conversation forward. Current
editorial initiatives include the Louise Meriwether
First Book Prize, created to highlight debut work
by women and nonbinary writers of color, and
Amethyst Editions, a queer imprint founded by
Michelle Tea.
MISSION
The Feminist Press publishes books that We are seeking political and cultural activist
ignite movements and social transformation. nonfiction that furthers our understanding of
Celebrating our legacy, we lift up insurgent intersectional feminism. We gravitate toward
and marginalized voices from around the voice- and vision-driven stories as well as genre-
world to build a more just future. defying texts, specifically books about economic
justice written in accessible language, feminist
VISION speculative fiction that explores the human
To create a world where everyone condition, and novels and nonfiction by queer,
recognizes themselves in a book. trans, disabled, and neuroatypical writers. We
do not publish poetry, dramatic works, doctoral
dissertations, or literary criticism.
2 MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS 3
FAT OFF, FAT ON IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET
A Big Bitch Manifesto Queer Reflections on Horror
Clarkisha Kent Edited by Joe Vallese
There was no easy way for Clarkisha Kent to navi Raised over $18,000 on Kickstarter!
gate personal discovery and self-love. As a fat,
Horror movies hold a complicated space in the
dark-skinned child of immigrants facing mental
hearts of the queer community: historically misog
health and intergenerational trauma, Kent some
ynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre
times felt like her body was a cosmic punishment.
has also been inadvertently feminist and open to
In the face of homophobia, anti-Blackness, body
subversive readings, thanks to common tropes
dysmorphia, and respectability politics, the pur
such as the circumspect and resilient “final girl,”
suit of “high self-esteem” seemed oxymoronic.
body possession, costumed villains, secret identi
Fat Off, Fat On is a humorous, at times tragic, ties, and things that lurk in the closet. Still, view
memoir that follows Kent on her journey of realiz ers often remain tasked with reading themselves
ing her body is a gift to be grown into, that some into beloved films, seeking out characters and
times family doesn’t always mean home, and how set pieces that speak to, mirror, and parallel the
ill-fated bisexual romances could free her from unique ways queerness encounters the world.
gender essentialism. Perfect for readers of Keah
It Came from the Closet features twenty-five
Brown’s The Pretty One, Alida Nugent’s You Don’t
original essays by writers speaking to this rela
Have to Like Me, and Stephanie Yeboah’s Fattily
tionship, through connections both empowering
Ever After, Kent’s debut is disarming and candid
and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on
It_Came_From_the_Closet_full_cover.indd 1 5/10/22 5:08 PM
about her lived experience of intersectionality. It
Jennifer’s Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My “Taken together, the pieces are a brilliant
stresses the importance of addressing the violence display of expert criticism, wry humor, and
Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more,
scored upon our minds and our bodies, and how original thinking. This is full of surprises.”
these conversations convey the rich reciprocity
we might begin the difficult—but joyful—work of
between queerness and horror from Halloween to —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
setting ourselves free.
Hereditary.
CLARKISHA KENT is a Nigerian American writer and
JOE VALLESE is coeditor of the anthology What’s Your
critic. Her writing has been featured in outlets like
Exit? A Literary Detour Through New Jersey. His
Entertainment Weekly, Essence, The Root, BET,
creative and pop culture writing appears in Bomb,
Paper, HuffPost, MTV News, and more. She is also
VICE, Backstage, PopMatters, Southeast Review,
the creator of #TheKentTest, a media litmus test
North American Review, Narrative Northeast, and
designed to evaluate the quality of representation
VIA: Voices in Italian-Americana, among others.
that exists for women of color in film and other
He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and a
media.
notable in Best American Essays. He is currently
Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository
Writing Program at New York University.
March 2023 • $19.95 • Memoir/essays • pb • 978-1-952177-74-3 • 272 pages • Rights: World English October 2022 • $25.95 • Nonfiction anthology • pb • 978-1-952177-79-8 • 312 pages • Rights: World
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PRETEND IT’S MY BODY WARRIOR PRINCESSES STRIKE BACK
Stories How Lakota Twins Fight Oppression and Heal through Connectedness
Luke Dani Blue Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart–White
Misfit mothers, prodigal “undaughters,” con art Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the
ists, and middle-aged runaways populate these original people of this land, yet it is also one of
Warrior Princesses Strike
“Poignant, raw, and filled with compassion,
ten short stories that blur the lives we wish for with the poorest communities
Back in the US. In this inti
gives us an essential look into the historical and contemporary
lives of Lakota women. The Eagle Hearts have written a love letter
the ones we actually lead. A tornado survivor grap mate and vulnerable memoir, Lakota twin sisters
to their younger selves and to Indigenous women everywhere——
a sacred gift to help the world collectively heal.”
g, ——MARK RUFFALO
n
—
ples with a new identity, a trans teen psychic can Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart–White
“The Eagle Heart twins share an eye-opening memoir about what
n it’s like growing up on an Indian reservation in the present day. The
h read mothers,only indecisive minds, and a woman informs recount growing up on the reservation and over
brave Lakota sisters, supported by the wisdom and strength of their
M isfit
herpopulate
runaways
prodigal “undaughters,”
con artists, and middle-aged
family of her plans to upload her conscious
these ten short
community, give readers an inspiring look into the women who are
leading the struggle to heal. This book will make you look at America
coming enormous odds, first as teenage girls in a
with fresh eyes.”
d ——PIPER PERABO
stories that blur the lives we wish for
ness and abandon
with the ones we actually lead. A tornado
her body. majority-white high school, and then battling bias
e
survivor grapples with a new identity,
a trans teen psychic can read only P
in their professional
ine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the original people
in America. Through careers.this intimate Woven
and vulnerable throughout
of this land, yet it is also one of the poorest communities
memoir,
Luke Dani Blue invites the reader into a world of
indecisive minds, and a woman informs
her family of her plans to upload her Lakota twin sisters Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart–
s consciousness and abandon her body. are self-help strategies
White recount growing centering women
up on the reservation and overcoming of color
EMMA EAGLE HEART—WHITE
SARAH EAGLE HEART
u
outlier lives made central and magical thinking enormous odds, first as teenage girls in a majority-white high
Luke Dani Blue invites the reader into a that combine school
marginalized histories, psychologi
and then battling bias in their professional careers. Woven
made real. Surreal, darkly humorous, and always
world of outlier lives made central and
throughout are self-help strategies centering women of color
that combine marginalized histories, psychological research on
cal research ontrauma,
trauma, and perspectives
therapy. Through the on
lens deco
m magical thinking made real. Surreal,
of and perspectives on decolonial
deeply
It’s My Body isfelt, Pretend It’s My Body is bound together
darkly humorous, and always deeply felt,
of Indigenous activism, the Eagle Hearts explore the possibility
lonial therapy. ofonhealing
s Pretend bound together
intergenerational and personal trauma by focusing
by the act of searching—for a spark of
e
d
by the
recognition act
and a story ofown.searching—for a spark of recognition
of one’s
traditional strategies of reciprocity, acknowledgment, and
collectivism.
and a story of one’s own. Interspersing personal memoir with radical notions
of self-help and collective recovery, Warrior Prin-
LUKE DANI BLUE’s stories have won awards from ISBN 978-1-55861-293-8 $17.95 US
cesses Strike THE
Back focuses on how Indigenous
FEMINIST PRESS
AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
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major literary magazines and been listed in The FEMINISTPRESS.ORG
activist strategies can be a crucial roadmap for
Best Amerian Short Stories. Originally from Michi
contemporary truth and healing.
gan, Luke Dani Blue is a two-time college dropout
“Smart and nuanced, the short stories of “Poignant, raw, and filled with compassion,
and with an MFA in fiction who resides most reli SARAH EAGLE HEART, Oglála Lakota, is an Emmy
Pretend It’s My Body mine inventive plots Warrior Princesses Strike Back gives us
ably on the internet. They are also an astrologer. Award–winning social justice storyteller, entrepre
and fresh characters to race through the an essential look into the historical and
This is their first book. neur, and philanthropic leader. Sarah cofounded
wreckage of bad choices.” contemporary lives of Lakota women. The
Zuyá Entertainment to create multiplatform sto
—FOREWORD REVIEWS Eagle Hearts have written a love letter to
ries based on her unique worldview infused by her their younger selves and to Indigenous
Lakota culture. She also cofounded Return to the women everywhere—a sacred gift to help
Heart Foundation and prior to this served as CEO the world collectively heal.”
of Native Americans in Philanthropy. —MARK RUFFALO
EMMA EAGLE HEART–WHITE, Oglála Lakota, is a psy
chotherapist, life coach, survivor, and advocate.
She began her career on the Oneida Nation of
Wisconsin in the healing field as a youth advocate
for Native American students. Today she works as
a psychotherapist and recently founded Owášte
Healing and Wellness LLC. She is currently work
ing on her PsyD in clinical psychology.
November 2022 • $17.95 • Fiction • pb • 978-1-952177-03-3 • 256 pages • Rights: World English January 2023 • $17.95 • Memoir • pb • 978-1-55861-293-8 • 344 pages • Rights: World
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PANICS THE AGE OF GOODBYES
Barbara Molinard Li Zi Shu
Preface by Marguerite Duras Translated by YZ Chin
Translated by Emma Ramadan
A close friend and protégé of Marguerite Duras, In 1969, in the wake of Malaysia’s deadliest race
Barbara Molinard wrote and wrote feverishly, but riots, a woman named Du Li An secures her place
e is as
ngular Barbara Molinard only managed to publish one book in her lifetime: in society by marrying a gangster. In a parallel nar
of her
n, in the surreal, nightmarish collection Panics. rative, a critic known only as The Fourth Person
explores the work of a writer also named Du Li
he These thirteen stories beat with a frantic, off-kilter
all.” An. And a third storyline is in the second person:
fferent rhythm as Molinard obsesses over sickness, death,
“you” are reading a novel titled The Age of Good-
nics
t has and control. A woman becomes transfixed by a boa
byes. Floundering in the wake of your mother’s
PANICS
on.”
constrictor at her local zoo, mysterious surgeons
death, you are trying to unpack the secrets sur
dismember their patient, and the author narrates
rounding your lineage.
een to Duras how she was stopped from sleeping in a
er
cemetery vault, only to be haunted by the pain of The Age of Goodbyes—which begins on page 513,
atient,
etery sleeping on its stone floor. a reference to the riots of May 13, 1969—is the
acclaimed English debut by Li Zi Shu. The win
BARBARA MOLINARD (1921–1986) published only
sly
ner of multiple awards and a Taiwanese bestseller,
one book: a collection of short stories titled Viens.
this dazzling novel is a profound exploration of
Preface by Marguerite Duras
Everything she wrote, she immediately tore up,
what happens to personal memory when official
2 $15.95 US Translated by Emma Ramadan and it was only through the relentless urging from
accounts of history distort and render it taboo.
her husband, the filmmaker Patrice Molinard,
and her friend Marguerite Duras, that she finally LI ZI SHU is the author of more than a dozen books,
“Earthy, sensuous prose evokes the sights,
“These surreal, claustrophobic handed over a single collection of stories to Edi including the novels Worldly Land and The Age sounds, and smells of Malaysia as it
stories bear similarities to the works tions Mercure de France in 1969. of Goodbyes, which won the China Times Open undergoes rapid change from the sixties
of Samuel Beckett and Leonora Book Award. Her work has been recognized with through the present.”
Carrington, but Molinard writes in a EMMA RAMADAN is a literary translator based in
multiple literary prizes in Malaysia, Taiwan, and —FOREWORD REVIEWS
voice that is all her own.” Brooklyn. She is the recipient of the Albertine
Hong Kong, including several Huazhong Literary (starred review)
Prize, the PEN Translation Prize, an NEA
—NEW YORK TIMES Awards.
Translation Fellowship, and a Fulbright. Her trans-
lations include Anne Garréta’s Sphinx, Virginie YZ CHIN is the author of Edge Case, a New York
Despentes’s Pretty Things, Kamel Daoud’s Zabor, Times Editors’ Choice, and Though I Get Home,
or the Psalms, and Abdellah Taïa’s A Country for winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize.
Dying. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times
Book Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Electric
Literature, and elsewhere.
September 2022 • $15.95 • Fiction • pb • 978-1-55861-295-2 • 168 pages • Rights: World x France November 2022 • $17.95 • Fiction • pb • 978-1-952177-69-9 • 376 pages • Rights: World English
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SWEETLUST HEAD ABOVE WATER
Stories Reflections on Illness
Asja Bakić Shahd Alshammari
Translated by Jennifer Zoble
In a dystopian world with no men, women are Shahd Alshammari is just eighteen when she is
“rehabilitated” at an erotic amusement park. Cli diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and told by her
mate change has caused massive flooding and neurologist that she would not make it past age
warming in the Balkans, where one programmer thirty. Despite what she is told, by thirty, she has
builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining become a professor of literature, and has managed
of The Sorrows of Young Werther refocuses to cen to navigate education systems in both Kuwait and
ter a sexually adventurous Charlotte. the United Kingdom and inspire generations of
students.
In these short stories, Asja Bakić deploys the
speculative and weird to playfully interrogate con Head above Water is the painstaking, philosoph
versations around artificial intelligence, gender ical memoir of Shahd Alshammari’s life of resis
fluidity, and environmental degradation. Once tance and accomplishment, as the daughter of
again Bakić upends her characters’ convictions a Palestinian mother and Bedouin father, as a
and identities—as she did in her acclaimed debut, woman marked “ill” by society, and as a lifelong
Mars—and infuses each disorienting universe with reader, student, and teacher. Charting her jour
sly humor and off-kilter eroticism. Both visceral ney with raw honesty, Alshammari explores dis
and otherworldly, Sweetlust takes apart human ability, displacement, and belonging—not only of
desire and fragility, repeatedly framing pleasure as the body, but of culture, gender, and race—and
both inviting and perilous. imparts wisdom of profound philosophical value
throughout. It is people, human connections, that
ASJA BAKIĆ is a Bosnian author of poetry and prose,
keep us afloat, she argues—“and in storytelling we “A necessary and beautiful account of
as well as a translator. She was selected as one
have the power to gain a sense of agency over our life with a sometimes-invisible and
of Literary Europe Live’s New Voices from Europe
lives.” unpredictable disability, complicated
2017, and her writing has been translated into
by both patriarchy and racism, as well
seven languages. Her debut, Mars, was published SHAHD ALSHAMMARI is a Kuwaiti-Palestinian author
as a professor’s love letter to the act of
in English by Feminist Press in 2019. She and academic. She is the author of the books
teaching and being taught.”
currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. Notes on the Flesh and Head above Water, as well
—MARCIA LYNX QUALEY, ARABLIT
as numerous other academic publications and
JENNIFER ZOBLE translates Balkan literature into
papers. Her areas of research include illness nar
English. Recent books include Call Me Esteban,
ratives, disability studies, and questions of iden
her translation of Zovite me Esteban by Lejla
tity and language in the Arab world.
Kalamujić, and Mars, which was selected by
Publishers Weekly for the fiction list in its “Best
Books 2019” issue. She is on the faculty of
Liberal Studies at New York University, where she
teaches writing and translation.
February 2023 • $16.95 • Fiction • pb • 978-1-952177-72-9 • 224 pages • World English July 2023 • $17.95 • Memoir • pb • 978-1-952177-07-1 • 176 pages • Rights: US & Canada
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BODY HORROR QUEER THEN AND NOW
Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes The David R. Kessler Lectures, 2002–2020
New and Revised From CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies
Anne Elizabeth Moore Edited by Debanuj DasGupta, Joseph Donica, and Margot Weiss
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award Founded in 1992 by the Center for LGBTQ Stud
in LGBTQ Nonfiction! ies at the City University of New York, the David R.
Kessler lectures represent the foreground of queer
Whether for entertainment, under the guise of
studies in the US, featuring legendary thinkers
medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous
such as Cherríe Moraga, Samuel Delaney, Bar
acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In
bara Smith, Judith Butler, and more. Queer Then
Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes,
and Now collects the speeches given from 2002
award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore
to 2020, as well as two scholarly roundtables, by
catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our phys
some of the most influential scholars, artists, and
ical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching
activists of the last two decades, including Sara
research and surprising humor, these essays range
Ahmed, Cathy J. Cohen, Douglas Crimp, Roderick
from investigative—probing the Cambodian gar
Ferguson, Jasbir K. Puar, Adrienne Rich, Gayle
ment industry, the history of menstrual products,
Rubin, Dean Spade, Urvashi Vaid, and more.
or the gender biases of patent law—to uncomfort
ably intimate. Moore, who suffers from several Diverse and dynamic, these intertextual conversa
autoimmune disorders, examines what it takes tions tackle some of today’s most important inter
to seek care and community in the increasingly ventions from the margins—including the growth
complicated, problematic, and disinterested US of trans studies, the synergy and disconnect
healthcare system. between theory and activism, the role of LGBTQ+
art and media, the challenges of transnational and
Featuring an updated introduction and new
“Anne Elizabeth Moore offers scalpel- postcolonial theory, and more. Tracing the matu
essays, as well as illustrations by Xander Marro,
sharp insight into the ways women’s ration of queer studies after its foundation in the
bodies are subject to unspeakable this new edition of Body Horror is a fascinating,
1990s, Queer Then and Now lays the groundwork
horrors under capitalism.” insightful portrait of the gore that encapsulates
in the twenty-first century and beyond.
—CHICAGO TRIBUNE
contemporary American politics.
DEBANUJ DASGUPTA is assistant professor of feminist
ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE was born in Winner, SD. She
studies at University of California Santa Barbara.
is the author of Unmarketable, Sweet Little Cunt,
JOSEPH DONICA is associate professor of English at
and Gentrifier: A Memoir, which was an NPR Best
Bronx Community College, CUNY. MARGOT WEISS
Book of the Year. She is the founding editor of
is associate professor of American studies and
Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics and the
anthropology at Wesleyan University.
former editor of Punk Planet, The Comics Journal,
and the Chicago Reader. She lives in the Catskills
with her ineffective feline personal assistant, Cap
tain America.
April 2023 • $18.95 • Essays • pb • 978-1-55861-286-0 • 288 pages • Rights: World English August 2023 • $28.95 • Nonfiction anthology • pb • 978-1-55861-245-7 • 336 pages • Rights: World
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HAPPY STORIES, MOSTLY HUMAN SACRIFICES
Norman Erikson Pasaribu Stories
Translated by Tiffany Tsao María Fernanda Ampuero
Translated by Frances Riddle
Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize! An undocumented woman answers a job post
ing only to find herself held hostage, a group of
In their stunning English-language fiction debut,
outcasts obsess over boys drowned while surfing,
queer Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pas
and an unhappy couple finds themselves trapped
aribu blends together speculative fiction and dark
in a terrifying maze. With scalpel-like precision,
absurdism, drawing from Batak and Christian cul
Ampuero considers the price paid by those on the
tural elements. Taken together, the twelve stories
margins so that the elite might lounge comfort
in this collection ask what it means to be almost
ably, considering themselves safe in their homes.
happy—to nearly find joy, to sort-of be accepted.
Simultaneously terrifying and exquisite, Human
An employee navigates their new workplace, a
Sacrifices is “tropical gothic” at its finest—decay
department of Heaven devoted to archiving unan
and oppression underlie this humid and hostile
swered prayers; a tourist in Vietnam seeks solace
world, where working-class women and children
following her son’s suicide; a young student
are consistently the weakest links in a capitalist
befriends a classmate obsessed with verifying the
economy. Against this backdrop of corrosion and
existence of a mythical hundred-foot-tall man.
rot, these twelve stories contemplate the nature
A tragicomic collection that probes the miracu
of exploitation and abuse, illuminating the reali
lous, melancholy nature of survival amid loneli
ties of those society consumes for its own pitiless
ness, Happy Stories, Mostly considers an oblique
ends.
approach to human life: In the words of one of the
stories’ narrators, “I work in the dark. Like mush MARÍA FERNANDA AMPUERO is a writer and journalist,
“An enticing collection, where the smallest
rooms. I don’t need light to thrive.” born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1976. She has
pedestrian acts—such as finding a secret
been published in newspapers and magazines
journal or getting a cubicle to work in— NORMAN ERIKSON PASARIBU is a queer Toba Batak
have the power to force characters to around the world, and is the author of two narra
writer of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Happy
question their internalized biases.” tive nonfiction titles and the short story collection
Stories, Mostly (translated by Tiffany Tsao) won
Cockfight, published by Feminist Press in 2020.
—ASYMPTOTE JOURNAL the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize and
In 2012 she was selected as one of the 100 Most
was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker
Influential Latin Americans in Spain.
Prize.
FRANCES RIDDLE has translated numerous Spanish-
TIFFANY TSAO translates Indonesian fiction and
language authors and was the recipient of an
poetry. She is the translator of Budi Darma’s Peo-
English PEN grant in 2021. Her translation of
ple from Bloomington and also writes novels, the
Claudia Piñeiro’s Elena Knows was shortlisted for
most recent of which is The Majesties. She lives
the International Booker Prize in 2022. Her work
in Sydney.
has appeared in journals such as Granta and the
White Review. Originally from Houston, she now
lives in Buenos Aires.
June 2023 • $16.95 • Fiction • pb • 978-1-952177-05-7 • 168 pages • Rights: US & Canada May 2023 • $15.95 • Fiction • pb • 978-1-55861-298-3 • 144 pages • Rights: World English x UK
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AMETHYST EDITIONS “A story of migration, queerness, brokenness, and love, this book
is absolute music to my ears.” —INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS
FIEBRE TROPICAL
Founded by Michelle Tea U A Novel
DELGADO
“Lit by neon Miami sunsets and the hot glow of the Christian prooted from Bogotá,
JULIANA
LOPERA
apocalypse, Fiebre Tropical is a coming-of-age tale, a coming- Colombia, into an ant-infested
out tale, a migration tale we’ve never read and badly need.” Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-
—MICHELLE TEA, author of Against Memoir
old Francisca is miserable in her
“¡Ay Dios mío! This book’s got tumbao. Juliana Delgado Lopera’s eye for
Julián Delgado Lopera
strange new city. Her alienation
FIEBRE TROPICAL
grows when her mother and
detail is fierce, and this novel is easy to devour.”
Amethyst Editions is an imprint founded by Michelle Tea
grandmother are swept up into
—JOSEPH CASSARA, author of The H ouse of Impossible Beauties
an evangelical church—replete
“ Fiebre Tropical is a triumph, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” with Christian salsa and baptisms
—DANIEL HANDLER, author of Bottle Grove
Winner of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction!
for the dead—that meets in the
to champion emerging queer writers who complicate
ballroom of their local Hyatt Hotel.
JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA is
“Delgado Lopera’s riveting new book is propelled as much by its
hurricane-force language as by its unforgettable characters: storm- But there, Francisca also meets
an award-winning Colombian
tossed women making the best of their new lives in a new country.” the magnetic Carmen: head of
writer and historian based in
the conversation around LGBTQ+ experiences beyond a “Ebullient and assertive. . . . Francisca’s soul stinks up the place
—CAROLINE PAUL, author of You Are Mighty the youth group and the pastor’s
San Francisco. She is the author
daughter. As her mother’s mental
of Quiéreme and the illustrated, “A magnificent novel. Pa’ decirlo clarito: Delgado Lopera is a writer of health deteriorates, Francisca falls
bilingual collection ¡Cuéntamelo! explosive talent, and this book is a fierce and radiant contribution to for Carmen and turns to Jesus to
coming-out narrative.
Oral Histories by LGBT Latino
Immigrants, which won a 2018
Lambda Literary Award and a
queer literature, Latinx literature, and immigrant literature, but also to
literature, punto.”
—CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS, author of Cantoras
F IEBRE beautifully in Fiebre Tropical.” —NEW YORK TIMES
grow closer to her, even as their
relationship hurtles toward a
shattering conclusion.
2018 Independent Publisher
Book Award. Her work has been “Breathless, hungry, funny, fun—the new immigrant novel in a knowing, T ROPIC A L
Uprooted from Bogotá to Miami, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miser
Narrated in irreverent prose
nominated for a Pushcart Prize see-all Colombian lesbian voice—this novel is much needed and alive.”
and a groundbreaking rhythmic
and has appeared in Eleven Eleven, —SARAH SCHULMAN, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse
Spanglish, Fiebre Tropical
Foglifter, Four Way Review, Broadly, establishes Juliana Delgado
“Gorgeously written, tragic and hilarious by turns, Fiebre Tropical is a
able in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother
and Time Out, among others. She Lopera as a bold new voice in
is the former creative director of tale of the soul-saving, soul-crushing power of first love.”
—ANNALEE NEWITZ, author of Autonomous
American literature.
RADAR Productions, a queer literary
nonprofit in San Francisco.
is swept up into an evangelical church replete with baptisms for the
MARGARET AND THE MYSTERY
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ter of the “The images inside of this book weaken the stronghold that
passage;
Malika Moustadraf (1969–2006) is a feminist icon in contemporary gatekeepers to history hold over our lives.” —CHARLENE CARRUTHERS
MALIKA MOUSTADRAF
to secure
er passes
Mousta
cial class,
Moroccan literature, celebrated for her stark interrogation of gender
From the ancient Secession of the Plebs to the 2017 protests of the
verse cast
patriar
of one of The Complete and sexuality in North Africa. Blood Feast is a collection of her short
Short Stories of
Malika Moustadraf
fiction—a sharp provocation to patriarchal power and a celebration Confederate Soldiers Monument in Durham—these posters pay trib
Translated by Alice Guthrie
89-7 $15.95 US
of the life and genius of one of Morocco’s preeminent writers. ute to the long-standing human legacy of revolution, creative activ
ism, and grassroots organizing.
$15.95 • Fiction • pb • 978-1-952177-89-7 • 176 pages • Rights: US & Canada $28.95 • Collected anthology • hc • 978-1-936932-87-0 • 256 pages • Rights: World x Korea
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